GREAT AVIATION QUOTES
Louis Bleriot

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Editorials in the London Newspapers buzzed about the new world where Great Britain’s insular strength is no longer unchallenged; that the aeroplane is not a toy but a possible instrument of warfare, which must be taken into account by soldiers and statesmen, and that it was the one thing needed to wake up the English people to the importance of the science of aviation.

Anon

Article on Louis Blériot’s flight across the English Channel, Frenchman Proves Aeroplane No Toy, in The New York Times, 25 July 1909.

I know him well and he is just the kind of man to accomplish such an undertaking. He is apparently without fear and what he sets out to do he generally accomplishes. This recklessness makes him anything but a good aviator, however, for he lacks entirely the element of caution.

Wilbur Wright

Cited as 'American Aeronat', on receiving the news that Louis Blériot had crossed the English Channel, the first to do so in an aeroplane. Quoted in Lays Aside Crutches to Fly Across Channel, Automobile Topics Illustrated, 31 July 1909.



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The most beautiful dream that has haunted the heart of man since Icarus is today reality.

Louis Bleriot

Quoted by Louise Faure-Favrier in Les chevaliers de l’air, 1923.

It is as though we have grown wings, which thanks to Providence, we have learnt to control.

Louis Blériot

Atlantic Monoplanes of Tomorrow, The Graphic, 3 September 1927.

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