Octave Chanute Quotes:
Ocupation: Engineer
Life: February 18, 1832 - November 23, 1910
Birthday: February 18
Death: November 23
Let us hope that the advent of a successful flying machine, now only dimly foreseen and nevertheless thought to be possible, will bring nothing but good into the world; that it shall abridge distance, make all parts of the globe accessible, bring men into closer relation with each other, advance civilization, and hasten the promised era in which there shall be nothing but peace and goodwill among all men.
source: Octave Chanute (1894). “Progress in Flying Machines”
topic: Distance, Airplane, Successful, Flying Machines, Foreseen
