Henri Coanda Quotes

All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines.

I was very limited in what I could do with flying saucers, because they're just a metal disc. I had to try and put character in as if they were intelligently guided.

The airplane I usually fly has 450 horse power, and it's all made out of carbon fibre - you can't break it; your body will break before the airplane does.

I think drones are a good tool to go after high-valued targets.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

Amazon is definitely serious about delivering its goods by an autonomous air force.

As a pilot, I can tell you drones may be a lot of things; airplanes they are not.

Drones, with their agility and small size, seem perfect for search and rescue operations.

Remotely operated aircraft have been on the Canadian Forces' wish list since the 1990s. Trials of a variety of drone prototypes began at the Canadian Forces Experimentation Centre in 2002.

We have institutionalized a drone program where the oversight is almost completely internalized.

It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the solution to the [flying machine] problem, have been exhausted, and that we must turn elsewhere.

The aeroplane is an invention of the devil and will never play any part in such a serious business as the defence of the nation, my boy!

An automobile has about 10,000 moving parts, right? An airplane has two million, and it has to stay up in the air.

The helicopter is probably the most versatile instrument ever invented by man. It approaches closer than any other to fulfillment of mankind's ancient dreams of the flying horse and the magic carpet.

To the possible enquiry as to the probable character of a successful flying machine, the writer would answer that in his judgment two types of such machines may eventually be evolved: one, which may be termed the soaring type, and which will carry but a single operator, and another, likely to be developed somewhat later, which may be termed the journeying type, to carry several passengers, and to be provided with a motor.

In things which we know, everyone will trust us ... and we may do as we please, and no one will like to interfere with us; and we are free, and masters of others; and these things will be really ours, for we shall turn them to our good.

More than honor, more than life, I love thee." What do you say when a man whose entire existence had been his honor offers to give it up for you? You say the only thing you can. More than any crown or throne or title, I love thee," I said. "more than any power in faerie, I love thee.

We love the kindly wind and hail, The jolly thunderbolt, We watch in glee the fairy trail Of ampere, watt, and volt.

Unjust force can never give any just dominion.

Faith and character are intimately related. Faith in the power of obedience to the commandments of God will forge strength of character available to you in times of urgent need.

Without one friend, above all foes, Britannia gives the world repose.

It is the rule of law alone which hinders the rulers from turning themselves into the worst gangsters.

For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings.

For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license.

Unity and victory are synonymous.