Anticipation Quote by Joseph B. Wirthlin

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

— Octave Chanute

“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

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

— C. Walton Lillehei

If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need…

— Felix Baumgartner

The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.

— Wilbur Wright

I love visiting the Air and Space Museum. It always blows my mind how far we've come from the Wright Brothers in 1906 to…

— Ryan Merchant

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 exciting part for me, as a pilot, was the landing on the moon. That was the time that we had achieved the national…

— Neil Armstrong

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

— Juan Trippe

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

As the journalists of the time phased it, this was the epoch of the Leap into the Air. The new atomic aeroplane became indeed…

— H. G. Wells

What of the Wright boys in Dayton? Just around the corner they had a shop and did a bicycle business-and they wanted to fly…

— Carl Sandburg