The helicopter appeared so reluctant to fly forward that we even considered turning the pilot's seat around and letting it fly backward.

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward.

Supersonic airplanes have carried men at more than 2,000 miles per hour and there are reasons to believe that this speed will be doubled by 1960 or so.

Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle.

Our concerns sink into insignificance when compared with the eternal value of human personality - a potential child of God which is destined to triumph over lie, pain, and death. No one can take this sublime meaning of life away from us, and this is the one thing that matters.

It would be right to state that, with the successful flight of the XR-4 in the summer of 1942, the helicopter became a reality in the United States.

The helicopter appeared so reluctant to fly forward that we even considered turning the pilot's seat around and letting it fly backward.