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Goodrich is a perfect addition to our Hamilton Sundstrand business. And with a strong portfolio of complementary products, Goodrich also brought great leadership balance, great opportunities to provide more integrated systems.

The Hercules' was a monumental undertaking. It is the largest aircraft ever built... I put the sweat of my life into this thing.

I left Aerospace because I wanted to go build, and put spacecraft together.

The biggest benefit of Apollo was the inspiration it gave to a growing generation to get into science and aerospace.

Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.

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?

What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.

I was a big aviation buff as a boy.

I don't know why I always liked aerospace engineering. I was in the 10th grade when I figured that's what I wanted to do.

In 2009, South Carolina was blessed to welcome a great American company that chose to stay in our country to continue to do business. That company was Boeing.