Funny Quotes about Air planes and Aircrafts

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Funny Quotes about Air planes and Aircrafts

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Funny Quotes about Air planes and Aircrafts

"Airplanes can barely keep themselves in the air. How can they then carry any kind of load?"
- William Pickering, Astronomer (1908)

"Airplanes suffers from so many technical faults that it is only a matter of time before any reasonable man realizes that they are useless!"
- Scientific American (1910)

"No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris."
- Orville Wright.

"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."
- Marshal Ferdinand Foch [Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre] (circa 1911)
He was Supreme Commander of Allied forces, 1918

"Aviation is good for sport, but for the Army it is useless!"
- Marshal Ferdinand Foch

"To throw bombs from an airplane will do as much damage as throwing bags of flour. It will be my pleasure to stand on the bridge of any ship while it is attacked by airplanes."
- Newton Baker, US minister of defense (1921)

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How long did they last?
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"Its like I said to Orville. 'You'll never get that thang off the ground' "

Wilbur Wright 1903

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Re: Funny Quotes about Air planes and Aircrafts

Post by Kevin Farnell »

henk hugo wrote: "Aviation is good for sport, but for the Army it is useless!"
- Marshal Ferdinand Foch
Hmmm :think: did he mistake the words 'useless' and 'deadly' :dunno:

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Post by airboatr »

Funny thing about it is, Any man who thought the contrary, Would probably have be thought of, as a nut.
It's been said,..... If some of the experiments or test fights done during the pioneering days of mechanical revolution,
were done today . they'd probably be
thrown in jail, substantually fined and forcefully medicated with
Prozac. :shock: :k: :doh:
:lol: :lol:

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