If the Wright Brothers were alive today, Orville would have to lay off Wilbur.
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I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.
quote by Wilbur Wright
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The 'Right Brothers
Once there were two brothers, Wilbur and Orville Wright
Bicycle their passion, their obsession was flight
To put an aeroplane in a high altitude,
Their dream of a lifetime, a dream pursue the would
At first they did it wrong, and the future seemed blight
But in 1903 finally did it Wright
When the Great Aerodrome failed to become aloft
One December 8 from a Potomac houseboat
Some estimated that Man will conquer the air
Not within a lifetime but in a million years
It did not take that long, it took only nine days,
17th December, year nineteen hundred third
In North Carolina, in a place called Kitty Hawk
The Wright's first aeroplane from ground to air took off
A machine that is much, much heavier than air
To the cheers of the crowd, up and airborne became
poem by Pacific Hernandez
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When the machine had been fastened with a wire to the track, so that it could not start until released by the operator, and the motor had been run to make sure that it was in condition, we tossed a coin to decide who should have the first trial. Wilbur won.
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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.
quote by Orville Wright
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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.
quote by Wilbur Wright
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
quote by Orville Wright
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It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
quote by Wilbur Wright
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Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!
quote by Orville Wright
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The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.
quote by Orville Wright
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Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.
quote by Wilbur Wright
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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks and it can't fly very high.
quote by Wilbur 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.
quote by Orville Wright
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We laid the track on a smooth stretch of ground about one hundred feet north of the new building.
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We were then satisfied that, with proper lubrication and better adjustments, a little more power could be expected. The completion of the motor according to drawing was, therefore, proceeded with at once.
quote by Orville Wright
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We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
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Why I Am So Happy Today/Because There Is No War
Why am I so happy today?
Because there is no war
And my son is alive
And so many other sons and fathers and husbands and brothers
Who might not have been alive
Are alive
Because the greater war that might have been
Did not happen
And so many who might have been injured or killed
Are alright
I am happy
Because we are alive-
poem by Shalom Freedman
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One of the Life Saving men snapped the camera for us, taking a picture just as the machine had reached the end of the track and had risen to a height of about two feet.
quote by Orville Wright
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The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.
quote by Wilbur Wright
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The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines.
quote by Orville Wright
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The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air.
quote by Wilbur Wright
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