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

"We had taken up the invention of the flying machine as a sport."

"The aeroplane will be a great factor in bringing together the different nations of the earth."

"We were confident that we had solved the problem of human flight."

"The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their monotonous lives, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, on the wings of the wind."