Glenn Curtiss Quotes
13 quotes from Glenn Curtiss — Aviation pioneer and founder of the Curtiss Aeroplane Company..
“I hope you find what you are looking for. And maybe discover something you had no idea about!”
“It will not be at all surprissing to see fifty or a hundred [aeroplanes] in use over the country next fall.”
“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.”
“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.”
“It is not a bad sport, but there's no place to go.”
“I have always thought that a flight I made in the June Bug one morning early in July, just previous to the official test, was my best flight up to that time.”
“The bitter decade-long Wright-Curtis feud pitted against each other two of the nation's most brilliant innovators, and shaped the course of American aviation.”
“Curtiss stands in the forefront of American aeronautical pioneers, second only to the Wright brothers in historical significance.”
“All I could see was a streak of beach with wild surf on one side, sand hills on the other and a black spot where the crowd was.”
“Riding an eight-cylinder motorcycle is not likely to become very popular.”
“The machine set up a terrific and inexplicable vibration; it was so great that it did not create wholly comforting thoughts. It satisfied my speed craving.”
“I visited the city in January, 1911, and after a thorough inspection of the grounds offered as an aviation field, decided to make that city the headquarters for the winter and carry on the experimental instruction work there.”
“I have never seen any one more eager to fly, and to fly as quickly as possible.”
