Orville Wright

(19 votes)   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.

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(10 votes)   The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.

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(330 votes)   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.

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(85 votes)   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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(82 votes)   Before leaving for our camp at Kitty Hawk we tested the chain drive for the propellers in our shop at Dayton, and found it satisfactory.

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(80 votes)   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.

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(77 votes)   We decided to place the motor to one side of the man, so that in case of a plunge head first, the motor could not fall upon him.

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(23 votes)   We laid the track on a smooth stretch of ground about one hundred feet north of the new building.

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(20 votes)   If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

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(18 votes)   We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.

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(16 votes)   Before leaving camp in 1902 we were already at work on the general design of a new machine which we proposed to propel with a motor.

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(16 votes)   In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

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(14 votes)   A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.

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(14 votes)   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.

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(13 votes)   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.

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