GREAT AVIATION QUOTES
Glenn Curtiss
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Not bad sport, but there's no place to go.
Glenn Curtiss
First time he flew a dirigible. It was built by Tom Baldwin, with a Curtis engine. 1904. Quoted in the 1942 book Wings Over America: The Inside Story of American Aviation.
It will not be at all surprissing to see fifty or a hundred [aeroplanes] in use over the country next fall.
Glenn Curtiss
Quoted in The New Sport of Air-Sailing, Country Life in America magazine, January 1909.
With the possible exception of having more pleasing lines to the eye while in flight, the monoplane possesses no material advantage over the biplane; in fact, the biplane type, as has been clearly shown in this country, is more stable, and, therefore, safer.
Glenn Curtiss
Aviation Progress During Past Year, in The New York Times, 31 December 1911.
It is hard enough for anyone to map out a course of action and stick to it, particularly in the face of the desires of one’s friends; but it is doubly hard for an aviator to stay on the ground waiting for just the right moment to go into the air.
Glenn Curtiss
In The Curtiss Aviation Book by Glenn H. Curtis and Augustus Post, 1912.
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