"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, …"

"The problem of flight was not one of power, but of control."

"The time will come when man will fly."

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

"We have at last succeeded in making a machine that will fly."