Quotes About Aeronautics

Aeronautics did not lead to democracy, unless budget airlines count.

But aeronautics purged the sin of height, otherwise known as the sin of getting above yourself.

Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle.

When you design it, think how you would feel if you had to fly it! Safety first!

When you design it, think how you would feel if you had to fly it! Safety first!

It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up.

The wings are moved several times by hand to charge the crank chamber with mixture, which flows on through the external pipe and inlet valve to the compression space and cylinder.

We need to be very thoughtful about how we propose to spend the money that NASA does have for space exploration. And we need to be clear that there's the human spaceflight part of NASA, and there's the science space part of NASA, and there's also aeronautics. Those are all very different things that NASA does.

I did two master's degrees - aeronautics and astronautics, and the second one was technology and policy. That taught me how to think about issues in science and technology as they relate to the general public.

[Buckminster] Fuller said that everything at the time was basically a horse and buggy in the form of an automobile and it had that boxiness and basically aeronautics hadn't been invented.

How was your flight? Well, aeronautically it was a great success. Socially, it left quite a bit to be desired.

My father describes himself as a Pole of Lithuanian descent. At Southampton University, he read aeronautical engineering and then the family moved to Hong Kong - this was before I was born - where he designed aeroplanes. Back in the U.K., he worked as a civil engineer, although every spare minute was spent researching his family's history.

It's not like there's a law against flying." "Yes there is. The law of gravity.

It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up.

Used as kites, these rigid stable aeroplanes are superior to the very best cellular kites I can make; they are lighter, pull harder per square foot, attain a greater angle of elevation, and have fewer parts.

You concentrate on what you are doing, to do the best job you can, to stay out of a serious situation. That's the way the X-1 was.

We had taken up aeronautics merely as a sport. We reluctantly entered upon the scientific side of it.