"What you are seeing is our new baby, and this is the first one like it in the world."

-Walt Gillette, vice president, Engineering, Manufacturing and Partner Alignment for the 7E7 Program, at an unveiling of the first full-scale test section of the 7E7 Dreamliner composite fuselage, in the Jan. 12 Seattle Post-Intelligencer

"We can do this. I'm not going to be distracted by those who say we can't. This feels like the next big step. It feels like something that could change the world."

-Deborah Limb, director, 7E7 Fuselage and Life Cycle Product Team, on the achievements recorded by the 7E7 team, in the Jan. 12 Chicago Tribune

"We still have a lot of work to do, but today we're feeling good."

-Michael Wetmore, director of Space Shuttle processing for NASA, in a Jan. 6 Reuters report. Wetmore made his comments as a redesigned Space Shuttle fuel tank arrived at the main assembly hangar at Cape Canaveral, Fla. Boeing is responsible for engineering, major modification design, engineering support to operations including launch, and overall shuttle systems and payload integration services.