Quote by Orville Wright
The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, part

The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center. – Orville Wright

Other quotes by Orville Wright

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power. – Orville Wright

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design
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Success four flights Thursday morning all against twenty one mile wind started from Level with engine power alone speed through air thirty one miles longest 57 second inform Press home Christmas. – Orville Wright

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Flight, Flying
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With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe. – Orville Wright

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Knowledge
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People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know it, is over. Its over the day that child is born. Its over, and something completely new starts. – Bill Murray

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Experience

Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. – Mary Baker Eddy

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Experience

Men and women who have served in harms way experience higher rates of divorce and suicide. Many battle the debilitating effects and stigma associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. – Ron Wyden

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A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it. – John le Carre

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