six-horse-power

Updated: August 15, 2026

With my motor, a machine weighing thirty pounds will give rather more than six-horse-power, or, in other words, will produce a wing power competent to overcome much more than its own gravity. If the Aeronautical Society does not, within the next few years, make a machine capable of carrying passengers through the air to New York in less than two days, I will make one myself."

Bernard Shaw - The Irrational Knot: Being the Second Novel of His Nonage