Pierre-Georges Latecoere famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

All the calculations show it can't work. There's only one thing to do: make it work.
-- Pierre-Georges Latecoere

#Aviation #Shows

The more I fly, the more I'm convinced that the true wonder of modern aviation is the transformation of tasteless particles into something known as airplane food.
Nothing said I had to crash.
It is not unreasonable to look upon Concorde as a miracle.
The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.'
The J3 Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you.
Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?
But a lot of shows, they pose questions and they give you a puzzle where there's no solution.
You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over.
As a main ingredient to the show, it has to have truth, represent truth, or else it won't last.
German civility, which often seems stiff to us, shows an attentive and touching respect for the person that I often prefer to our offhandedness.

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