The Hercules' was a monumental undertaking. It is the largest aircraft ever built... I put the sweat of my life into this thing.
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If you go back to the early days of aviation, the guys designing it built it, and then they got in it and flew it. I mean, who does that anymore?
I feel privileged and honored to have flown. It's been a tremendous ride, looking back on the legacy and accomplishments, like the Hubble telescope and the launching of the International Space Station in 1998.
If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create something the size of N.A.S.A. to make one.
The airplane has had a big impact on my life.
If I had to describe myself in one word, 'Hercules.'
Goodrich was the biggest acquisition in the history of aerospace.
I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I had a lot of fun building airplanes that people could build in their garages. And some 3,000 of those are flying. Of course, one of them is around-the-world Voyager.
That movie, 'Airplane!,' what a landmark film it was. It's a great, great movie.
Spaceflight, especially in the Mercury spacecraft, clearly wasn't going to be much like flying an airplane.
The space shuttle has been a fantastic vehicle. It is unlike any other thing that we've ever built. Its capabilities have carried several hundred people into space.
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