“The first real air-liner, carrying some five or six hundred passengers, will probably appear after or towards the end of the battle between fixed and moving-wing machines. And it will be a flying boat.” FirstsRealEndsMovingFiveAirBattleSixHundredMachinesWingsFlyingBoatFixedAviationPredictionsPassengers Book:Aeolus: Or, The Future of the Flying Machine Source: Aeolus: Or, The Future of the Flying Machine
“The helicopter has never achieved much success and . . .may be classes with the ornithopter as obsolete.” MayClassAviationPredictionsObsoleteHelicopters Author:Oliver Stewart