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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When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power.Orville Wright
The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.
Orville Wright
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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
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.
Orville Wright
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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