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• The people of Sydney who can speak of my work [on flying-machine models] without a smile are very scarce; it is doubtless…
• Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to…
• The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.
• Bent metal is worse than bent wood and weight for weight is more flexible.
• Used as kites, these rigid stable aeroplanes are superior to the very best cellular kites I can make; they are lighter, pull…
• And from a poise at this station the plane may swoop down, at great disadvantage if close to the back of the…
• My objective is and has been for years to make the lightest and most compact flying machine that would carry me at…
• The people of Sydney who can speak of my work without a smile are very scarce.
• It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying…
• As to the effect of the wave on the air, we will suppose the water to be quite flat and the air…
• Common sense steps in here and says: Separate the parts you want to be mobile from the parts you want to be…
• The closer the bird is to the surface of the water, the firmer and more inelastic is the uplift of the rising…

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