And then I went in and I had a lot of fun building airplanes
that people could build in their garages.
And some 3,000 of those are flying. Of course, one of them
is around the world Voyager. I founded another company in '82,
which is my company now.
And we have developed more than one new type of airplane every year since 1982.
And there's a lot of them that I actually can't show you on this chart.
The most impressive airplane ever, I believe, was designed
only a dozen years after the first operational jet.
Stayed in service till it was too rusty to fly, taken out of service.
We retreated in '98 back to something that was developed in '56. What?
The most impressive spaceship ever, I believe,
was a Grumman Lunar Lander. It was a -- you know, it landed on the moon,
take off of the moon, didn't need any maintenance guys --
that's kind of cool.
We've lost that capability. We abandoned it in '72.
This thing was designed three years after Gagarin first flew in space in 1961.
Three years, and we can't do that now. Crazy.
Talk very briefly about innovation cycles, things that grow,
have a lot of activity; they die out when they're replaced by something else.
These things tend to happen every 25 years.