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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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
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
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.
Orville Wright
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.
Orville Wright
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
Orville Wright
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.
Orville Wright
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