Airplane Quote by Bill Engvall

“On December 17, 1903, on a windy North Carolina beach for just shy of one hundred seconds, the Wright brothers demonstrated that a heavier-than-air,…

— Lawrence Lessig

More than 120 years ago, the Wright brothers pioneered their aviation work and built the world's first airplane in Dayton. I'm proud to support…

— Jon Husted

There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris,…

— Burt Rutan

When counting on learning from innovation, there are great successes but also failures. The Wright Brothers invented the aircraft and started an amazing process…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.

— Bertrand Piccard

Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief…

— Freeman Dyson

The reason why the Wright brothers were successful wasn't because they had the most resources, but because they understood how invention works. You have…

— Boyan Slat

The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.

— Charles Kettering

“What will make you great today will never make you great tomorrow! The airplane that Wilbur and Orville Wright invented in 1906 would be…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“From almost nothing, France in four years built up an aircraft industry that employed nearly 200,000 people and produced some 70,000 planes. Britain built…

— Bill Bryson

There was a flight from Cleveland to New York City with just two people on board. There hasn't been two people on an airplane…

— David Letterman

The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.

— Dorothea Brande