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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…
• 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…
• We estimated that we could make one of four cylinders with 4 inch bore and 4 inch stroke, weighing not over two…
• 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…
• When the machine had been fastened with a wire to the track, so that it could not start until released by the…
• A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet…
• 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…
• No data on air propellers was available, but we had always understood that it was not a difficult matter to secure an…

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