GREAT AVIATION QUOTES
Jules Verne

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I don’t intend to stop until I reach the West coast of Africa! With my balloon there will be nothing to fear from either heat, torrents, storms, the simoon, unhealthy climate, wild animals or savage men. If I’m too hot, I go up. If I’m too cold, I come down. If I meet an impassable mountain, I fly above it; a precipice, I sail over it; a river, I float across it. If I encounter a storm, I ascend above it; a torrent, I flit over it like a bird. I travel without fatigue and halt without need of rest. I soar over new cities. I fly with the swiftness of a hurricane. Sometimes I rise to the very edges of the breathable atmosphere. At others, I descend to skim over the earth at a few hundred feet, so the great map of Africa unwinds beneath my eyes like the mightiest atlas in the world.

Jules Verne

Said by Dr Samuel Fergusson, dreamer and explorer, commander of the Zanzibar expedition in Verne’s first science fiction novel, Five Weeks In A Balloon, 1863.

In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people who would shut up the human race upon this globe, we shall one day travel to the Moon, the planets, and the stars with the same facility, rapidity and certainty as we now make the ocean voyage from Liverpool to New York.

Jules Verne

From the Earth to the Moon, 1865.

Well, gentlemen, do you believe in the possibility of aerial locomotion by machines heavier than air? …

You ask yourselves doubtless if this apparatus, so marvellously adapted for aerial locomotion, is susceptible of receiving greater speed. It is not worth while to conquer space if we cannot devour it. I wanted the air to be a solid support to me, and it is. I saw that to struggle against the wind I must be stronger than the wind, and I am. I had no need of sails to drive me, nor oars nor wheels to push me, nor rails to give me a faster road. Air is what I wanted, that was all. Air surrounds me as water surrounds the submarine boat, and in it my propellers act like the screws of a steamer. That is how I solved the problem of aviation. That is what a balloon will never do, nor will any machine that is lighter than air.

Jules Verne

The Clipper of the Clouds, 1887.

Man is inherently an earthly creature, and only his scientific imagination will ever make him a planetary emigrant.

Lee de Forest

Known as the 'Father of Radio' or the 'Father of Electronics', de Forest invented, amonst other things, the first practical electronic amplifier. He had over 300 patents to his name, but could not see the future. The remarks were during an interview with Voice of America radio, reported by the Associated Press in February 1957. He said this year may become known for the first man-made planet, an artificial earth satelite, and history indeed proved him tright about that prediction. However he continued:

“But to place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon, where the passenger can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth — all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne.

I am bold enough to say that such a man-made moon voyage will never occur regardless of all future scientific advances.”



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