Download or read book Slipping the Surly Bonds: Great Quotations on Flight written by Dave English and published by McGraw-Hill Professional. This book was released on 1998-05 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From man's earliest expressions on the magic of flying to the chilling last words of some of aviation's giants, here's an utterly unique collection of 1,000 of the most memorable thoughts on flight down through the ages. Concisely capturing flying's special allure and excitement as well as its humor and tragedy, this power-packed anthology of quotations by Leonardo da Vinci, Lindbergh, Armstrong, Yeager, and hundreds of others amply illustrates why, as aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal rhapsodized, "To fly is everything."