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Wolfgang Langewiesche Quotes:

Wolfgang Langewiesche quotes

Ocupation: Author

Life: 1907 - 2002

Birthday: 1907

Death: 2002

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Get rid at the outset of the idea that the airplane is only an air-going sort of automobile. It isn't. It may sound like one and smell like one, and it may have been interior decorated to look like one; but the difference is - it goes on wings.

source: - Wolfgang Langewiesche (1994). “Stick & Rudder: 50th Anniversary Edition”, McGraw-Hill

Topics: Airplane, Wings, Ideas

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Flying is done largely with the imagination.

Topics: Imagination, Flying, Done, Pilots And Flying

A fierce and monkish art; a castigation of the flesh. You must cut out your imagination and not fly an airplane but regulate a half-dozen instruments . . . .At first, the conflicts between animal sense and engineering brain are irresistibly strong.

Topics: Strong, Art, Airplane, Great Aviation

Any young boy can nowadays explain human flight - mechanistically: " ... and to climb you shove the throttle all the way forward and pull back just a little on the stick. ... " One might as well explain music by saying that the further over to the right you hit the piano the higher it will sound. The makings of a flight are not in the levers, wheels, and pedals but in the nervous system of the pilot: physical sensations, bits of textbook, deep-rooted instincts, burnt-child memories of trouble aloft, hangar talk.

Topics: Children, Memories, Boys, Throttle, Pedals

Sometimes I watch myself fly. For in the history of human flight it is not yet so very late; and a man may still wonder once in a while and ask: how is it that I, poor earth-habitituated animal, can fly?

Topics: Animal, Men, Watches

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