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There are 4 quotes matching Harry Harper in the collection:
In three days you should learn the manipulation of your machine. On the fourth you should be able to make some long hops into the air. In a week — well, there is no reason why, if the route is fairly unobstructed, you should not fly to the station in the morning to catch your train to town.
Sales-talk at the Aero Show
Olympia, 1910. Quoted in the 1958 book Flying Witness: Harry Harper and the Golden Age of Aviation.
The very latest thing to do, if one really wants to be up-to-date, is to join the Aero Club of Great Britain, and go in for the sport of ballooning …
One returns to earth with a splendid appetite, completely invigorated in mind and body, and with lungs and blood thoroughly scavenged by the inhalation of the pure air in the high altitudes.
Harry Harper
On the popular week-end ballooning parties, first aviation special article for the Daily Mail newspaper, 1906. Quoted in 1958 book Flying Witness: and the Golden Age of Aviation. Not everybody was so impressed. The same book has the 1906 blasé reaction of a ‘neighbouring squire’s daughter going up with Rolls [of Rolls-Royce] for the first time’:
“It’s a bit disappointing, after all. The peculiar sensation of ballooning is that there is no sensation at all!”
Again I felt that overpowering rush of excitement which I fond almost everyone has experienced who has seen a man fly. It is an exhilaration, a thrill, an ecstasy. Just as children jump and clap their hands to see a kite mount, so, when the machine leaves the ground and with a soaring movement really flies upon its speeding wings, one feels impelled to shout, to rush after it, to do anything which will relieve the overcharged emotion.
Harry Harper
Describing Bleriot’s departure for Dover, in the Daily Mail newspaper, 26 July 1909.
Flying machines are no longer toys and dreams; they are an established fact. The possibilities of this new system of locomotion are infinite. I feel as a Britisher rather ashamed that we are so completly out of it.
Lloyd George
At Grande Semaine d’Aviation de la Champagne, Reims, France, August 1909. Quoted in the 1958 book Flying Witness: Harry Harper and the Golden Age of Aviation.
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