Quote by Orville Wright
Success four flights Thursday morning all against twenty one mile

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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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance. – Orville Wright

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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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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

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Any landing you can walk away from is a good one. – Proverb

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The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth. – Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible. – Edward Rickenbacker

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