Wright Brothers (Orville & Wilbur) — "We have hopes of making a flight of considerable length before long."

"I never had any particular love for the airplane. What I love is to fly."

"If its engine stops, it must fall with deathly violence, for it can neither glide like the aeroplane or float like the balloon. The helicopter is much easier to design than the aeroplane, but is worth…"

"We have been able to keep the machine in the air for longer periods than ever before."

"No flights of any kind were made except those of our own machine, which, strange to say, did not become a public amusement."

"We did not have a university education, but we had a good deal of common sense."