No airship will ever fly from New York to Paris. That seems to me to be impossible. What limits the flight is the motor. No known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping, and you can't be sure of finding the proper winds for soaring.
First powered flight
Wilbur Wright, Speech accepting the Gold Medal from the Aéro Club de France in Paris
1908
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"The best thing about being a man of science is that you never have to be bored."
Humorous"No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris."
Strange & Unusual"We had taken up the invention of the flying machine as a sport."
Humorous"We could not understand why the calculation of Lilienthal and others were so much in error."
Shocking"We have not yet fully solved the problem of balance in high winds."
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