Able Quote by Larry Walters

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

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

— Octave Chanute

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

— Charles Kettering

The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.

— Dorothea Brande

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

— C. Walton Lillehei

I love flying and kind of just fascinated with it, and to fly something like an F-22 would be a blast.

— Stephen Colletti

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

— Bill Engvall

People developed planes first and then took care of flight safety. If people were focused on safety first, no one would ever have built…

— Mark Zuckerberg

I wish for many reasons flying had never been invented.

— Stanley Baldwin

“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

“nearly every time Moseley and Air Force Secretary Mike Wynne came to see me, it was about a new bomber or more F-22S. Both…

— Robert M. Gates

Well, 'aerospace' was really not a name in my young life. Flying airplanes was. And I got my first try at flying - just…

— Wally Funk