GREAT AVIATION QUOTES
Glenn Curtiss
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Any man endowed with an average amount of nerve, a cool head and a quick eye and a fair muscular development can soar through the air nowadays, provided he is equipped with a machine like the one being used by A. M. Herring among the sand dunes near Dune Park, Ind. All that is necessary for him to do is to seize the machine with a firm grasp, say a prayer, take a running jump into space, and trust to luck for finding a soft place when he alights. His chances of getting hurt are about one in a thousand in his favor, while having more sport to the second than he ever dreamed possible.
Chicago Times-Herald newspaper
Unnamed reporter describing the hang-glider flights of Augustus Herring. 8 September 1887. Quoted in the 2014 book Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies
Not bad sport, but there's no place to go.
Glenn Curtiss
First time he flew a dirigible. It was built by Tom Baldwin, with a Curtis engine. 1904. Quoted in the 1942 book Wings Over America: The Inside Story of American Aviation.
It will not be at all surprissing to see fifty or a hundred [aeroplanes] in use over the country next fall.
Glenn Curtiss
Quoted in The New Sport of Air-Sailing, Country Life in America magazine, January 1909.
To affirm that the aeroplane is going to “revolutionize” the naval warfare of the future is to be guilty of the wildest exaggeration.
Scientific American magazine
The Myth of the Aeroplane Bomb, following Glenn Curtiss successfully dropping imitation bombs on a simulated battleship, 16 July 1910.
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With the possible exception of having more pleasing lines to the eye while in flight, the monoplane possesses no material advantage over the biplane; in fact, the biplane type, as has been clearly shown in this country, is more stable, and, therefore, safer.
Glenn Curtiss
Aviation Progress During Past Year, in The New York Times, 31 December 1911.
It is hard enough for anyone to map out a course of action and stick to it, particularly in the face of the desires of one’s friends; but it is doubly hard for an aviator to stay on the ground waiting for just the right moment to go into the air.
Glenn Curtiss
In The Curtiss Aviation Book by Glenn H. Curtis and Augustus Post, 1912.
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