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One of the life saving men snapped the camera for us, taking a picture just as the machine had reached the end of the track and had risen to a height of about two feet.

— Orville Wright The Early History of the Airplane (1908)

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

The distance over the ground was measured and found to be 852 feet; the time of the flight 59 seconds.

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Wilbur, having used his turn in the unsuccessful attempt on the 14th, the right to the first trial now belonged to me.

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He stayed along beside the machine without any effort.

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The time of this flight was fifteen seconds and the distance over the ground a little over 200 feet.

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