I believe that my course in sending our Kitty Hawk machine to a foreign museum is the only way of correcting the history of the flying machine, which by false and misleading statements has been perverted by the Smithsonian Institution.
First powered flight
Orville Wright, in a letter to the Smithsonian, explaining his decision to send the Flyer to a London museum due to a dispute over historical credit.
1928
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Controversial"We have hopes of making a flight of considerable length before long."
Controversial"We do not intend to make a fortune out of this, but to make a machine that will fly."
Shocking"We could not understand how it was that the best scientists could not fly a machine. We thought that they must be working on the wrong principle."
Humorous"We were not looking for a fortune, but we were looking for a solution."
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