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At that time there was no flying art in the proper sense of the word, but only a flying problem. Thousands of men had thought about flying machines and a few had even built machines which they called flying machines, but these were guilty of almost everything except flying.

— Wilbur Wright Civil-suit deposition against the Herring-Curtiss Company (1909)

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Civil-suit deposition against the Herring-Curtiss Company (1909)

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