No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
We were lucky enough to grow up in an environment where there was always much encouragement to children to pursue intellectual interests; to investigate what ever aroused curiosity.
It was the first time in the history of the world that a machine carrying a man and driven by a motor had lifted itself from the ground in free flight.
We wrote to a number of the best known automobile manufacturers in an endeavor to secure a motor for the new machine. Not receiving favorable answers from any of these we proceeded to design a motor of our own.
In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.
The exhilaration of flying is too keen, the pleasure too great, for it to be neglected as a sport.
