"The ability to do this so quickly was……" — Orville Wright
"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 work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines."
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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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No data on air propellers was available, but we had always understood that it was not a difficult matter to…
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