"The machine had scarcely cleared the ground when it began to turn up, and the next instant it darted into the ground."

"No airship will ever fly from New York to Paris. That seems to me to be impossible. What limits the flight is the motor. No known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping, a…"

"The course of the experiment was not exactly according to program. The machine started to make a series of dives and dashes in various directions. It was a rather wild ride."

"We could not but feel that the time was at hand for man to make a practical flight."

"The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility."