Igor Sikorsky famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If you are in trouble anywhere in the world, an airplane can fly over and drop flowers, but a helicopter can land and save your life.
-- Igor Sikorsky

#Flower #Airplane #Land
It is like a dream to feel the machine lift you gently up in the air, float smoothly over one spot,
-- Igor Sikorsky

#Dream #Air #Machines
The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward.
-- Igor Sikorsky

#Positive #Moving #Sparks
At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation.
-- Igor Sikorsky

#Engineering #Pilots #Tests
According to recognized aero technical tests, the bumblebee cannot fly because of the shape and weight of his body in relation to the total wing area. The bumblebee doesn't know this, so he goes ahead and flies anyway.
-- Igor Sikorsky

#Wings #Bumblebees #Weight
It would be right to say that the helicopter's role in saving lives represents one of the most glorious pages in the history of human flight.
-- Igor Sikorsky

#Would Be #Roles #Saving
Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle.
-- Igor Sikorsky

#Airplane #Miracle
Money lost-nothing lost, Health lost-little lost, Spirit lost-everything lost.
-- Igor Sikorsky

#Littles #Spirit #Lost
If a man is in need of rescue, an airplane can come in and throw flowers on him, and that's just about all. But a direct lift aircraft could come in and save his life.
-- Igor Sikorsky

#Flower #Airplane #Men
Our concerns sink into insignificance when compared with the eternal value of human personality - a potential child of God which is destined to triumph over lie, pain, and death. No one can take this sublime meaning of life away from us, and this is the one thing that matters.
-- Igor Sikorsky

#Children #Pain #Lying
Supersonic airplanes have carried men at more than 2,000 miles per hour and there are reasons to believe that this speed will be doubled by 1960 or so.
-- Igor Sikorsky

#Believe #Airplane #Men
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.
-- Igor Sikorsky

#Dream #Horse #Men
It would be right to state that, with the successful flight of the XR-4 in the summer of 1942, the helicopter became a reality in the United States.
-- Igor Sikorsky

#Summer #Successful #Reality

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