When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power. — Orville Wright Copy Share Image
With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for… — Orville Wright Copy Share Image
The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of… — Orville Wright Copy Share Image
One of the Life Saving men snapped the camera for us, taking a picture just as the machine had reached the end of the… — Orville Wright Copy Share Image
In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power. — Orville Wright Copy Share Image
We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th. — Orville Wright Copy Share Image
When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power… — Orville Wright Copy Share Image
With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my… — Orville Wright Copy Share Image
When the machine had been fastened with a wire to the track, so that it could not start until released by the operator, and… — Orville Wright Copy Share Image
With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750… — Orville Wright Copy Share Image
In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the… — Orville Wright Copy Share Image
“If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.” — Orville Wright Copy Share Image
A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the… — Orville Wright Copy Share Image
