"Come to the edge," he said. They said, "We are afraid." "Come to the edge," he said. They came. He pushed them And they flew.

Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy.

Flight is the only truly new sensation that men have achieved in modern history.

At the end of the first half-century of engine-driven flight, we are confronted with the stark fact that the historical significance of aircraft has been primarily military and destructive.

I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.