Wright Brothers (Orville & Wilbur):

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

— Wright Brothers (Orville & Wilbur) Modern

First powered flight

Orville Wright, in a telegram to his father after the first flight

1903

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"We could not understand why the calculation of Lilienthal and others were so much in error."

"It is difficult to understand how anyone could have been so blind to the truth."

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

"We do not intend to make a fortune out of this, but to make a machine that will fly."

"I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years."

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