Airplane Quote by 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

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

Who was the first person to fly across the Atlantic? Lindbergh. Who was the second? No idea.

— Tim O'Reilly

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

— Bill Engvall

No aeroplane you've ever gotten into had less than thousands of flights before they took their first passenger. Because vehicles are unsafe at first.

— Chris Hadfield

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

The people who went on that airplane were unexceptional.

— Paul Greengrass

The Wright brothers' first flight was shorter than a Boeing 747's wing span. We've just begun with heart transplants.

— C. Walton Lillehei

There are certain people whose heads are on a different plane than others.

— Sean Payton

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

— Charles Kettering

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

It was the first airplane . . . that could make money just by hauling passengers.

— C. R. Smith