“The aeroplane is the nearest thing to animate life that man has created. In the air a machine ceases indeed to be a mere piece of mechanism; it becomes animate and is capable not only of primary guidance and control, but actually of expressing a pilot's temperament.” MenPiecesAirCapableMachinesMereCeaseFlightPrimariesGuidanceAviationPilotsMechanismTemperamentAeroplanes Author:Ross Macpherson Smith