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

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I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadnt. – Ernest Hemingway

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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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I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra. – George S. Kaufman

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