4+ Wolfgang Langewiesche Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Wolfgang Langewiesche quotes and sayings.

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

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

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

Flying is done largely with the imagination. — Wolfgang Langewiesche