"No data on air propellers was available, but……" — Orville Wright
"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% with marine propellers."
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Orville Wright
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20 Quotes by Orville Wright
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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little…
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and…
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We estimated that we could make one of four cylinders with 4 inch bore and 4 inch stroke, weighing not…
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We laid the track on a smooth stretch of ground about one hundred feet north of the new building.
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We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
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We were then satisfied that, with proper lubrication and better adjustments, a little more power could be expected. The completion…
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When the machine had been fastened with a wire to the track, so that it could not start until released…
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A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over…
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In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its…
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In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but…
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One of the Life Saving men snapped the camera for us, taking a picture just as the machine had reached…
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