Wolfgang Langewiesche Quotes

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A fierce and monkish art; a castigation of the flesh. You must cut out your imagination and not fly an airplane but regulate a half-dozen instruments....At first, the conflicts between animal sense and engineering brain are irresistibly strong.

Wolfgang Langewiesche

Get rid at the outset of the idea that the airplane is only an air-going sort of automobile. It isn't. It may sound like one and smell like one, and it may have been interior decorated to look like one; but the difference is - it goes on wings.

Wolfgang Langewiesche

Sometimes I watch myself fly. For in the history of human flight it is not yet so very late; and a man may still wonder once in a while and ask: how is it that I, poor earth-habitituated animal, can fly?

Wolfgang Langewiesche

Wolfgang Langewiesche

Wolfgang Langewiesche

Born: 1907

Died: 2002 (aged 95)

Bio: Wolfgang Langewiesche aviator, author and journalist, is one of the most quoted authors in aviation writing. His book, Stick and Rudder, is still in print, and is considered a primary reference on the art of flying fixed-wing aircraft.

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