"When we started in 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
I laughed so much when I saw this quote. Igor Sikorsky was the father of the helicopter, back in the pioneering days of flight where the approach to design was "try it and see".
Alas, the excitement and adventure is not as high, but at least we have safer aircraft for it. Thanks, mostly, to the work of those early men and their flying machines.
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