Walter Kohn Quotes

All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines.

We produce motor drive electronics; we produce cargo systems for large narrow-body and wide-body airplanes and, more importantly, the emergency escape chute that goes on these planes.

At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went up. I realized that humans would be right behind robot aircraft or spacecraft even though I really had no plans of being in aviation or a professional aviator and certainly not in the military.

When the F-16 first was rolled out, there were many problems in the development. There were cost issues, and it ended up being one of the best planes the military has ever seen and kept this country protected and kept many jobs in the North Texas area.

The takeover of the U.S. House by Republicans could prompt a revival of the fight for additional funding for the Marietta-built F-22 stealth fighter. This isn't just for the sake of home-cooking, but also for the sake of the country.

A spacecraft cockpit interior is a set where there are a lot of little techy bits, control panels and graphics displays, and other things that are kind of a job to manufacture well.

I loved being a test pilot, and so being an astronaut was - was not my end point in, you know, either I achieved success by being an astronaut, or if I don't get picked, I'm not successful. I loved my career as a pilot, and it was a bonus to be selected as an astronaut.

All the best to SpaceX, Orbital Sciences, and, yes, the Progress teams, who are all working on their own solutions to open the frontier along with Boeing and the rest of the fliers trying to fly, all of whom I know personally share the dream. This isn't their fault; they just want to make things fly.

I had a number of part-time jobs after school in Willow Grove, but I did work for two summers in Ocean City as a waitress at Chris' Seafood Restaurant. I loved it.

I've always thought of Boeing as the premier aerospace company in the world, so as I was coming up through school, it was the company I aspired to work for.

We have neglected our aerospace program, and I am detecting a lot of bipartisan support to continue that mission.

Boeing is a United States icon.

I didn't just work at a hardware store. I went to college for a second, and I worked there on breaks or during the summer.

I always wanted to be a pilot, though somewhere down the line switched to computers.

I'm still that kid that worked at Subway and Target.

We expect to be a prime in the fighter jet business for the long run. This is not a business we're getting out of at all.

I thought that NASA didn't take biologists and so nothing would come of it. But I knew I would regret it if I did not apply.

If you want more kids to become engineers in space, travellers, and pilots, then you have to expose them to those types of careers.

I wanted to be an aerospace engineer because I really like space. But I didn't go to the army.

I was working at Papa John's full-time. I had just quit my part-time job at UPS. I was there for two years.

The Lockheed Skunk Works, led by Kelly Johnson, was responsible for its Advanced Development Projects - everything from the P-80, the first U.S. jet fighter plane, to the U-2 and A-12 spy planes.

Our concept of One Boeing assumes an integrated business mix of deep commercial and military expertise applied across the global marketplace.

This is what I wanted all along, and after I finished my studies and begun the job of testing jet aircraft, well, there wasn't a happier pilot in the air force.

I have always loved aeroplanes and spacecraft and the design element.

Aerospace services represents one of our biggest growth opportunities for the future.