"Learning the secret of flight from a bird was a good deal like learning the secret of magic from a magician."

"The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their dim terrestrial captivity, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space…"

"It is a pleasure to be able to inform you that the machine has been a success."

"The desire for flight is the expression of a deep-seated human instinct."

"The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their weary journeys over endless plains, yearned for a swifter and less laborious mode of travel."