From the May issue of Air and Space, in an article by Paul Glenshaw...
The quote is from Richard Harding Davis, a famed reporter who flew with Wright exhibition pilot Frank Coffyn in 1911. Although initially filled with terror, once in the air "..a wonderful thing happened":
"I began to understand why young men with apparently everything to make them happy on earth persist in leaving it by means of aeroplanes... What lures them is the call of a new world waiting to be conquered, the sense of power, of detachment from everything humdrum, or even human, the thrill that makes all the other sensations stale and vapid, the exhilaration that for the moment makes each one of them a king."
I think I would have enjoyed a drink and some conversation with Mr. Davis.
The quote is from Richard Harding Davis, a famed reporter who flew with Wright exhibition pilot Frank Coffyn in 1911. Although initially filled with terror, once in the air "..a wonderful thing happened":
"I began to understand why young men with apparently everything to make them happy on earth persist in leaving it by means of aeroplanes... What lures them is the call of a new world waiting to be conquered, the sense of power, of detachment from everything humdrum, or even human, the thrill that makes all the other sensations stale and vapid, the exhilaration that for the moment makes each one of them a king."
I think I would have enjoyed a drink and some conversation with Mr. Davis.