"We have been making flights at an altitude of about 50 feet."

"The course of the experiment was not always smooth. The machine would start all right, but the propelling power was not sufficient to overcome the resistance of the air."

"The airplane has forced us into a new relationship with each other."

"The greatest value of our experiments has been their negative results."

"The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, …"