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"Wir sind zwar Beherrscher der Luft und können Erdteile und Ozeane überqueren, aber das nächste Hausdach haben wir mit unseren Luftfahrzeugen noch nicht erobert. Die Erfüllung dieses Wunschtraumes erhoffen wir, neben vielen anderen Möglichkeiten, von dem Hubschrauber."
"Lack ist ein Luxus und deshalb unnötig."
"„Eine Flugmaschine zu erfinden bedeutet wenig; sie zu bauen schon mehr; aber sie zu fliegen, das ist das Entscheidende.“"
"„Opfer müssen gebracht werden.“"
"„Von allen, die das Problem des Fliegens im 19. Jahrhundert behandelten, war Otto Lilienthal zweifelsfrei der Bedeutendste […] Betrachtet man Lilienthals Leistung, entsteht die Frage, ob er das Problem des Menschenfluges vollständig gelöst hätte, wenn sein Tod im Jahre 1896 seine Anstrengungen nicht unterbrochen hätte.“"
"„Die Macht des Verstandes, o, wend’ sie nur an,"
"„Alles Fliegen beruht auf der Erzeugung von Luftwiderstand, alle Flugarbeit besteht in der Überwindung von Luftwiderstand.“"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.