It is like a dream to feel the machine lift you gently up in the air, float smoothly over one spot.

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.

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 is like a dream to feel the machine lift you gently up in the air, float smoothly over one spot.

This machine was a failure to the extent that it could not fly. In other respects it was a very important and necessary stepping stone.

At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation.

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