Top 6 Lawrence Hargrave Quotes (2024 Update)

Lawrence Hargrave Quote: “Bent metal is worse than bent wood and weight for weight is more flexible.”

1. “Bent metal is worse than bent wood and weight for weight is more flexible.”

2. “Used as kites, these rigid stable aeroplanes are superior to the very best cellular kites I can make; they are lighter, pull harder per square foot, attain a greater angle of elevation, and have fewer parts.”

— Lawrence Hargrave

3. “And from a poise at this station the plane may swoop down, at great disadvantage if close to the back of the wave, at various slopes and directions till it cuts into the air that is being raised by the face of the following wave, which again enables it to resume its velocity.”

— Lawrence Hargrave

4. “The people of Sydney who can speak of my work without a smile are very scarce.”

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5. “The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.”

— Lawrence Hargrave

6. “It becomes a giant’s task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up.”

— Lawrence Hargrave

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