The Wright Brothers

We never gave up, even when things looked bleak.

The joy of discovery is the greatest reward.

We have always been driven by a passion for flight.

The sky is no longer the limit.

We have made the impossible possible.

The machine is a marvel of engineering.

We are now able to fly for extended periods.

The world is now a smaller place.

We have opened up new possibilities for humanity.

The wind tunnel experiments were crucial to our success.

We built our own wind tunnel because existing data was unreliable.

The calculations for lift and drag were more complex than anticipated.

We had to invent a new system of control for the aircraft.

The wing warping mechanism was key to achieving lateral control.

Our glider experiments at Kitty Hawk were essential for understanding flight dynamics.

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their tedious travels across prairies and mountains and deserts, looked enviously at the birds soaring freely through space, at the unlimited highway of the air.

The machine itself is nothing. The art of using it is everything.

We could not have learned to fly if we had been afraid to fall.

The course of the experiment was not exactly according to program, but the general result was satisfactory.

We were lucky enough to be born at the right time.