Quote
"[Before ascending, Ezekiel reads a poem to his small crowd]"
T
To Fly!Watch the Earth drop beneath you (2016 40th-anniversary revision) — To Fly!
"Watch the Earth drop beneath you (2016 40th-anniversary revision)"
Watch the Earth drop beneath you (2016 40th-anniversary revision)
T
To Fly!
To Fly!
author16 quotes
To Fly! is a 1976 American short docudrama film directed by Greg MacGillivray and Jim Freeman of MacGillivray Freeman Films, who wrote the story with Francis Thompson, Robert M. Young, and Arthur Zegart. It premiered at the giant-screen IMAX theater of the National Air and Space Museum, which opened to celebrate the United States Bicentennial. The film chronicles the history of aviation in the US,
About To Fly!
To Fly! is a 1976 American short docudrama film directed by Greg MacGillivray and Jim Freeman of MacGillivray Freeman Films, who wrote the story with Francis Thompson, Robert M. Young, and Arthur Zegart. It premiered at the giant-screen IMAX theater of the National Air and Space Museum, which opened to celebrate the United States Bicentennial. The film chronicles the history of aviation in the US,
View all quotes by To Fly!More by To Fly!
View all →Quote
"This development of mobility and rapid transport has no parallel in all human history. And the telescoping of time has changed forever, the patterns of our imagination."
T
To Fly!Quote
"[After ascending] Its magnificence! I wish you can all see it from here!"
T
To Fly!Quote
"[After showing the first form of aviation, hot-air-balloons] But America is still the domain of the horizontal, and speaks a language of vast distances. To conquer [it], we begin to think of space not as miles of forests and prairie to be crossed, but as time between places. Days. Hours. Minutes. We ally ourselves to speed."
T
To Fly!Quote
"Once, the shining sea of the West was limits and boundary. Now, lands-end, theres no longer the end of the line."
T
To Fly!Quote
"Here on July 4th, in the Year of Our Lord 1831, I am about to take a flight above the ground and earth and into the silent sky!"
T
To Fly!