“You got an idea, and you want to try something, come up here and we’ll help ya.”
“We’ll figure out a place – even if it’s just a little shack someplace – so you can start your business.”
“Why did Orville and Wilbur go to Kitty Hawk? They went for three reasons: they wanted to get away from the press, freedom from industrial espionage, and…
“…a steady breeze.”
“…a steady breeze.”
“You know, the same things exist in Mojave today.”
“There’s no other mecca of rocket powered airplanes than this place right here.”
“With Edwards right next door. The reason is because its such a wonderful natural area for testing rocket planes.”
“In the middle of nowhere, nobody else wants to be here. So we do.”
“You would not believe the Wild Ideas that walk in this place.”
“And we don’t look at them as Wild Ideas.”
“We actually take some internal pride in hosting people who are willing to try.”
“Every day you see something in the sky here at the Mojave Airport.
It is a very interesting place to be.”
“It’s the world center of odd looking airplanes that do amazing things.”
“We get to know the people who are twisting the wrenches.”
“We were able to perform over five thousand rocket tests in the last ten years.”
“When you project that ahead exponentially that is a game changer in
the rocket powered flight industry.”
“Nowhere else does that happen.”
“I keep telling the world, if we are successful at Mojave, hopefully, the world will have many commercial vehicles to fly in space.”