Quotes by Orville Wright - Page 1

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
Orville Wright /
New York
Flying
Paris
Ever
Fly
Machine
York
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The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.
Orville Wright /
Airplane
Fall
Because
Up
Stays
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We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
Orville Wright /
Friday
Left
September
Arrived
Camp
Dayton
Hill
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We laid the track on a smooth stretch of ground about one hundred feet north of the new building.
Orville Wright /
Feet
Hundred
Smooth
Track
Ground
Laid
North
Stretch
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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.
Orville Wright /
Design
Block
Motor
Six
Testing
Weeks
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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!
Orville Wright /
Astonishing
Discover
Preserved
Secrets
So Many Years
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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 /
Accepted
Assumption
Little
Advance
True
Worked
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We estimated that we could make one of four cylinders with 4 inch bore and 4 inch stroke, weighing not over two hundred pounds, including all accessories.
Orville Wright /
Accessories
Cylinders
Hundred
Pounds
Weighing
Bore
Estimated
Inch
Stroke
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No data on air propellers was available, but we had always understood that it was not a difficult matter to secure an efficiency of 50% with marine propellers.
Orville Wright /
Air
Available
Data
Difficult
Efficiency
Marine
Secure
Understood
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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 /
Air
Feet
Flight
Hundred
Track
Dart
Ended
Point
Sudden
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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 /
Feet
Height
Risen
Track
Picture
Camera
Reached
Snapped
Taking
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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 /
Horse
Motor
Seconds
Tested
Completed
Develop
Dropped
Minute
Till
Rapidly
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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.
Orville Wright /
Adjustment
Completion
Drawing
Satisfied
According
More Power
Proper
Therefore
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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.
Orville Wright /
Efficient
Enthusiastic
Machines
Mr
Due
Largely
Shop
Quickly
Services
Succeeding
Taylor
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In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
Orville Wright /
Experiments
Gliding
Motor
Shock
Uneasy
Absorb
Case
Crushing
Landed
Experiences
Number
Wing
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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 /
Horse
Permit
Pounds
Surplus
Twelve
Weight
Rise
Allowed
Considered
Estimate
Operator
Originally
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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.
Orville Wright /
Motor
Track
Wire
Condition
Coin
Won
Fastened
Operator
Released
Tossed
Trial
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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.
Orville Wright /
Knowledge
Flight
Safe
Strange
Ten
Today
Wind
Acquired
Hardly
Last
Machine
Making
Mile
Skill
Ten Years
Thousands
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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 /
Balanced
Erratic
Flight
Up And Down
Account
Center
Due
Exceedingly
Handling
Near
Partly
Rudder
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