My objective is and has been for years to make the lightest and most compact flying machine that would carry me at 25 or 30 miles per hour for 10 min…

- Lawrence Hargrave

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 resis…

- Lawrence Hargrave

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

- Lawrence Hargrave

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, …

- Lawrence Hargrave

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

- Lawrence Hargrave

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

- Lawrence Hargrave

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 t…

- Lawrence Hargrave

Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to them. Patent fees are so much w…

- Lawrence Hargrave

The people of Sydney who can speak of my work [on flying-machine models] without a smile are very scarce; it is doubtless the same with American work…

- Lawrence Hargrave