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

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.

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.

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

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.

If a man is in need of rescue, an airplane can come in and throw flowers on him, and that's just about all. But a direct lift aircraft could come in and save his life.