"The machine was kept in the air for 59 seconds and traveled 852 feet."

"The airplane stays up because it doesn’t have the time to fall."

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

"Learning the secret of flight from a bird was a good deal like learning the secret of magic from a magician—something the magician won't tell, and the bird can't tell."

"The only bird that could speak told us what it knew, but we didn’t understand its language."