Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Joe Sutter

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American engineer Joe Sutter.

Last updated on November 8, 2024.

Joseph Frederick Sutter was an American engineer for the Boeing Airplane Company and manager of the design team for the Boeing 747 under Malcolm T. Stamper, the head of the 747 project. Air & Space/Smithsonian magazine has described Sutter as the "father of the 747".

American - Engineer | March 21, 1921 - August 30, 2016

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When we were told it's impossible, we knew it's the right way to be done.

Joe Sutter

At the start of any program, asking questions is the most important part of the process. If you get [the customer's] requirements wrong, then you don't have a successful product.

Joe Sutter

We built a jet airplane to get in and out of a 5,000-ft field. No one believed it could be done.

Joe Sutter

. . . It wasn't until the jet engine came into being and that engine was coupled with special airplane designs - such as the swept wing - that airplanes finally achieved a high enough work capability, efficiency and comfort level to allow air transportation to really take off.

Joe Sutter

Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Joe Sutter

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