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

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

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

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

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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.

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

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With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.

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When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power.

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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.

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The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Inventor

Born: August 19th, 1871

Died: January 30th, 1948

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