Aviation Pioneer Gifts

'They turned down our request for a grant.'

'I've decided to centralize my operations. Everything will be in my ipad.'

"No, you're in the Milky Way galaxy."

"OK team, we need innovative solutions and we need 'em fast!"

The Aerial Steam Carriage

"I don't know. He just said he had discovered something and we had to come over and see it."

"You know if we market it right, this thing could spread like the wheel."

December 17, 1903, The Wright Brothers invent the first hub airport at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

'I can't help thinking there's something else we can do with this.'

'Wheel.'

"My, it feels good to sit down."

'If I don't think inside the box... why should I think outside the box?'

Life Discovered on Mars

"Sadie, they found a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri. That makes way over 1,000 planets we've discovered in my lifetime." "It must be exciting for you, discovering there are 1,000 worlds full of people who can't possibly know what a doofus you are." "...Unless they've got telescopes." "It is exciting. Now I know how you must've felt when Oog the Caveman discovered Venus." "I see you're bringing what passes for your 'A-game' today."

"Let's all go out & get drunk."

Ferdinand von Zeppelin

Only in the newspapers.

'Face it, you've changed. The man I married would never subject his family to an annual cost-benefit analysis.'

"Yes, I believe I was one of the first dentists to use computers!"

Chasing the one big idea

Steve Jobs

"We're throwing out the old rules."

"Wait? I thought it was a 'look'?"

"Watch for innovation."

The first in-flight meal: "Care for some soup?"

Arrivals, Purgatory, Departures.

'Well, we just became unspectacular.'

"You did say you wanted an earlier flight."

December 17, 1903: We miraculously devise a craft that can transport human beings though the sky. December 18 1903: We figure out how to use said craft to kill people.

It was another dramatic dog-fight between the deadly foes.

'Orville, you know smoking isn't allowed on planes. No wonder we've had problems getting this crate up in the air.'

Pentagon Science Contest: 'I get that a lot...must be from being in the presence of raw genius.'

Spaceman

"Thanks to our wonderful research team we can now offer you gender choice at birth and puberty."

Moon Landing