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Quote by Pierre-Georges Latecoere

“All the calculations show it can't work. There's only one thing to do: make it work.”

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Pierre-Georges Latecoere, born in 1883 in France, was a figure who contributed to both the arts and the industrial sector. His life and achievements are not widely documented. more

“To be able to rise from the earth; to be able, from a station in outer space, to see the relationship of the planet earth to other planets; to be able to contemplate the billions of factors in precise and beautiful combination that make human existence possible; to be able to dwell on an encounter of the human brain and spirit with the universe”

Source: The Celebration of Life: A Dialogue on Hope, Spirit, and the Immortality of the Soul

“All agreed that the sensation of coasting on the air was delightful.”

Air Flying Flight Aviation Sensations Delightful

Author:Octave Chanute

“No one can realize how substantial the air is, until he feels its supporting power beneath him. It inspires confidence at once.”

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Author:Otto Lilienthal

“We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds.”

Home Bird Conviction Experiments Flight Aviation Sailing Exclusive Prerogative

Author:Otto Lilienthal

“The air to a glider pilot is a reality. . . . He is trying to understand it in all its moods; to learn its flow, its laws, and to try and use this knowledge to his own ends.”

Trying Ends Use Reality Law Air Flow Mood Flight Aviation Pilots

Author:Philip Wills

“The airplane is just a bunch of sticks and wires and cloth, a tool for learning about the sky and about what kind of person I am, when I fly. An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding. Those things aren't destructable.”

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Book:Nothing By Chance

Source: Nothing By Chance

“Flying was a very tangible freedom. In those days, it was beauty, adventure, discovery - the epitome of breaking into new worlds.”

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Book:HOUR OF GOLD HOUR OF LEAD

Source: HOUR OF GOLD HOUR OF LEAD

“I began to feel that I lived on a higher plane than the skeptics of the ground; one that was richer because of its very association with the element of danger they dreaded, because it was freer of the earth to which they were bound. In flying, I tasted a wine of the gods of which they could know nothing. Who valued life more highly, the aviators who spent it on the art they loved, or these misers who doled it out like pennies through their antlike days? I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile trade for an ordinary life time.”

Quote by Pierre-Georges Latecoere

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