Aerospace Technology Quotes

All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines.

We must produce a true American motor, a true American plane.

The future of the Navy is in the skies.

In the Space Age, man will be able to go around the world in two hours—one hour for flying, and one hour to get to the airport.

I'm urging NASA to foster the development of what I call 'runway landers.' No, that's not the name of a high stakes gambler from Vegas. It's a type of spacecraft that flies to orbit like the retiring Shuttles but then glides to a landing like an airplane on a runway. Just like the Shuttles do.

While working with a camera crew supervising flight testing of advanced aircraft at Edward's Air Force Base, California, the camera crew filmed the landing of a strange disc object that flew in over their heads and landed on a dry lake nearby. A camera crewman approached the saucer, it rose up above the area and flew off at a speed faster than any known aircraft.

We're going to go to the moon. We're going to go on to Mars. We're going to set up a base on the moon. OK, but no money to pay for it, nothing in the budget for it. And so the decision made at that time was to cancel the whole shuttle program to save money, which I think was very, very short sighted.

Nonsense. Space is blue and birds fly through it.

Boeing is a United States icon.

On the first flight test of any spacecraft, you're going to find surprises.

I was interested in aerospace and flying, and the U.S. is really the best place in the world for flying.

The Russians will never be able to get their missiles thought the dense protective layer of delayed flights circling over the United States in complex, puke-inducing holding patterns.

In 1960-61, a small group of female pilots went through many of the same medical tests as the Mercury astronauts and scored very well on them - in fact, better than some of the astronauts did.

The Americans cannot build aeroplanes. They are very good at refrigerators and razor blades.

I don't know if I could rebuild an airplane engine, but I know a little bit about rotors and rivets.

I do not remember how it got into my head to make the first calculations related to rocket. It seems to me the first seeds were planted by famous fantaseour, J. Verne.

I don't know why I always liked aerospace engineering. I was in the 10th grade when I figured that's what I wanted to do.

Iran launches monkey into space

One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and the cost of rockets.

We have played a critical role in meeting the new safety standards. The Canadian space industry contributed new tools that make the inspection of the space shuttle possible.

I have always loved aeroplanes and spacecraft and the design element.

I knew I wanted to be a part of NASA in any case, and so I chose my goals in education to be consistent with working at NASA even as, you know, a scientist.

Lockheed! You found me! You are the best X-Dragon ever.

After a while the press of business in the province put an end to our philosophizing, and I returned with increased determination to my plans to fly to the Moon.

Observation: It would be awesome to fly in a superfast airplane that could chase the sunrise around the world for a while.