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The thing aviation has to sell is speed. In a complete survey of passenger flights by day over our Chicago-San Francisco and Seattle-Los Angeles routes, 75 per cent of the travelers are shown to be business men. They fly to save time, primarily to save daytime—to save business days.—W. E. BOEING
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The nation that controls the air will ultimately rule the world.—ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL
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The United States is the only country in the world which possesses
a really great aeronautical industry.—GIANNI CAPRONI
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When I am asked to forecast the future of aviation, I speak with reluctance. Always in the past my estimates have been exceeded two or three times over. The future of aviation I believe to be literally beyond comprehension.—ANTHONY H. G. FOKKER
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Were I a young man, seeking a career in either science or commerce, I should unhesitatingly turn to aviation. I consider it the greatest road to opportunity which lies before the science and commerce of the civilized countries of the earth today.—DANIEL GUGGENHEIM
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Airplanes have a high rate of depreciation, naturally, but a higher rate of obsolescence. There is no reason why a plane need wear out in 2 years; but my guess is that the best passenger plane manufactured today will be obsolete 2 years from now.—HARRY GUGGENHEIM
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The element of time saving in transportation has a large economic importance. Today the airplane is the fastest means of transportation.—HERBERT HOOVER
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The flying-machine engaged the attention of ambitious inventors long before the hot-air or the gas balloon was suggested as a means of traveling through the air.—WALDEMAR KAEMPFFERT
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And as for man's ambition! What jubilation because man had started to fly like a bird! But just look at the way a bird flies, the simple, easy lightness accompanied by a spontaneous, joyful song. Then think of the clumsy, roaring machines and of the anxiety, panic and deadly fear of the man who tries to play the bird's part.—PIRANDELLO
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Aviation is an unfinished story—a story scarcely begun. . . But already it touches us so closely; it beckons to our youth and to our dollars.—EARL REEVES, Aviation's Place in Tomorrow's Business
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Careful and studious men created the aeronautical science. These cautious experimenters were the first to fly. The first pilots were pioneers in the field of knowledge.—EARL REEVES, Aviation's Place in Tomorrow's Business
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The whole progress of aviation has been empirical; we build on experience. We know so little. We must feel our way along.—G. A. RENTSCHLER
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This seemed to us the principal value of the aeroplane against a trained infantry: it is a sort of artillery that can be concentrated very quickly to check an enemy breakthrough'or to hammer at a centre of resistance when your enemy is retreating.—TOM WINTRINGHAM,New Ways of War
