Wright Brothers (Orville & Wilbur):

We have been making flights at an altitude of about 50 feet.

— Wright Brothers (Orville & Wilbur) Modern

First powered flight

Orville Wright, letter to his sister Katharine

1905

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"We have been able to keep the machine in the air for longer periods than ever before."

"We were confident that we had solved the problem of human flight."

"The fact that the machine did not fall apart at the first gust of wind was a great encouragement."

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

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

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