“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.”
“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.”
Orville Wright
“What will make you great today will never make you great tomorrow! The airplane that Wilbur and Orville Wright invented in 1906 would be seen as a scrap today. It becomes valueless with time.”
Israelmore Ayivor“In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.”
Orville Wright“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“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“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.”
Orville Wright“The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.”
Orville Wright“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“Learning the secret of flight from a bird was a good deal like learning the secret of magic from a magician.”
Orville Wright“We learn much by tribulation, and by adversity our hearts are made better. -Bishop Milton Wright to Orville Wright, 20 Sept. 1908”
David McCullough, The Wright Brothers“If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance.”
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