Boeing Quote by C. Walton Lillehei

I believe the new machine of the Wrights to be the most promising attempt at flight that has yet been made.

— Octave Chanute

We are ever on the threshold of new journeys and new discoveries. Can you imagine the excitement of the Wright brothers on the morning…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

“Only nine years before the Wright brothers’ famous first flight, Hargrave lifted himself 4.9 metres (16 feet) off the ground in a swing attached…

— Jen Fraser

There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after the Wright…

— Buzz Aldrin

This is the most important aviation development since Lindbergh's flight. In one fell swoop, we have shrunken the earth.

— Juan Trippe

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' first flight was not reported in a single newspaper because every rookie reporter knew what could and couldn't be done.

— Edward R. Murrow

They say that most airline seats on planes today are meant for 170-pound passengers. The last time the average American weighed 170 pounds, the…

— Jay Leno

In 1903 the Wright brothers invented airplanes, because in 1902 they took a road trip across the country with their family.

— Bill Engvall

If the F.A.A. was around when the Wright Brothers were testing their aircraft, they would never have been able to make their first flight…

— Larry Walters

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

— Charles Kettering

In the '80's my gut feeling was that airlines were crap. I hated spending time on planes. I thought we could create the kind…

— Richard Branson