Orville Wright Quotes

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• If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
• The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience…
• We estimated that we could make one of four cylinders with 4 inch bore and 4 inch stroke, weighing not over two hundred pounds, including…
• We laid the track on a smooth stretch of ground about one hundred feet north of the new building.
• We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
• We were then satisfied that, with proper lubrication and better adjustments, a little more power could be expected. The completion of the motor according to…
• When the machine had been fastened with a wire to the track, so that it could not start until released by the operator, and the…
• A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point…
• In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.
• In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing…
• No data on air propellers was available, but we had always understood that it was not a difficult matter to secure an efficiency of 50%…
• One of the Life Saving men snapped the camera for us, taking a picture just as the machine had reached the end of the track…
• The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine…
• 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…
• With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first…
• 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…
• Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!
• The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.
• The exhilaration of flying is too keen, the pleasure too great, for it to be neglected as a sport.

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