GREAT AVIATION QUOTES
Burt Rutan

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In a relatively short period of time — maybe 15 to 20 years — I believe we’re going to fly hypersonic and we’ll look at SSBJs [supersonic business jets] as not having been a necessary intermediate stop. we’ll bounce across the top of the atmosphere at Mach 5-6 or do suborbital lobs flying weightless. Travel time may be reduced to as little as 60 minutes anywhere on Earth.

Within 25 years, virtual reality meetings will be essentially transparent to being there in person. Once we can do this, the idea of climbing into an aircraft, and burning up huge quantities of fossil fuels to propel our bodies and briefcases full of papers, will seem absolutely backward.

Burt Rutan

Interview in Professional Pilot magazine, March 2006.

Everything looks nonsensical before it works.

Burt Rutan

Designer of SpaceShipOne, regards an experienced aerodynamicist who contacted him and said the design wouldn’t work. Remarks at Oshkosh AirVenture 2011.

That to me is a bunch of crap trying to shoot guys up into damned space. What they’re going to do is they’re going to wipe out half a dozen people one of these days, and that will be the end of it.

Chuck Yeager

Thoughts on Burt Rutan’s private spacecraft, CNN interview 5 June 2012.

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