"With twelve horse power at our command, we……" — Orville Wright
"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 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds."
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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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