Dennis Muilenburg Quotes

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.

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

During the past 30 years, European governments have provided more than $15 billion in the form of low- and no-cost loans to Airbus for the specific purpose of developing new aircraft lines.

One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and the cost of rockets.

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.

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

Our aerospace industry is a British success story which relies on Airbus - a collaboration with other E.U. countries.

I own a small aerospace company that does some business with the U.S. government.

The Americans cannot build aeroplanes. They are very good at refrigerators and razor blades.

Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business.

I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.

I was interested in aerospace and flying, and the U.S. is really the best place in the world for flying.

I'm urging NASA to foster the development of what I call 'runway landers.' No, that's not the name of a high stakes gambler from Vegas. It's a type of spacecraft that flies to orbit like the retiring Shuttles but then glides to a landing like an airplane on a runway. Just like the Shuttles do.

At various times over 20 years, I did preliminary designs for aircraft like the Stratolaunch. For that whole time I was encouraging us to do something that almost everyone else felt you could not do.

McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15.

… to seek employment as a designer of large aircraft.

I had a great life at Boeing. I'd been there for 37 years and contributed to all the Boeing airplanes as a designer: the 707, 727, 37, 47, 57, 67 and 'triple 7' and the 87.

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.

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.

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

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

I got this letter asking me if I wanted to or if I would consider going to experimental test pilot school and becoming the first Negro astronaut and I thought it was crazy.

My career has been spent developing airplanes.

There is also a huge potential for developing the aviation and space industries. As you might have noticed we have launched a new Russian spaceport in one of the Far Eastern regions.

I enjoy going out to the plants, the factories where just some sub-element maybe of the orbiter or the space station is built. Those people take such pride in that component, and they build it to perfection, and it's just a pleasure to see that.