Orville Wright

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

#advance #assumption #hope #little #really

The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall. ↗

— Orville Wright

#because #fall #stays #time #up

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

#dart #end #ended #feet #flight

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

— Orville Wright

#design #had #just #motor #power

Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them! ↗

— Orville Wright

#been #could #discover #just #many

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

#always #available #data #difficult #efficiency

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

— Orville Wright

#fly #flying #machine #new #new york

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

#camera #end #feet #had #height

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

#bore #could #cylinders #estimated #four

We laid the track on a smooth stretch of ground about one hundred feet north of the new building. ↗

— Orville Wright

#building #feet #ground #hundred #laid