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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.
Grounding airplanes to cover your butt would never have let Orville or Wilbur change the world. We would still be spending weeks to cross the Atlantic to do business in London.
We can make aircrafts that can navigate a maze of hallways.
You can't imagine a world, quite frankly, without a safe and secure aviation system. And so our job is to really focus on that, and what we need to do to keep it safe and secure.
I came up with idea of a solar airplane flying around the world with no fuel - that would be a beautiful message in terms of technology, the energy of the future and the environment.
Aircraft are always going to be something that terrorists are interested in because you bring down an airliner, you have drawn the world's attention.
If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
Every once in a while, we'd ask my dad if we could get a ride in one of these planes. And, he did take us to the flying club and get us a ride in the Pushpak and a glider that the flying club had.
Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.
It turns out that if you optimize the performance of a car and of an airplane, they are very far away in terms of mechanical features. So you can make a flying car. But they are not very good planes, and they are not very good cars.