"It is a pleasure to be able to inform you that the machine has been a success."

"The problem was not to build a machine that would fly, but to build a machine that would fly safely."

"We have been making flights of over an hour in length."

"Our confidence in the ability of men to fly has not been shaken."

"The machine had scarcely cleared the ground when it began to turn up, and the next instant it darted into the ground."