Quote by Orville Wright
With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights

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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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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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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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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