"The greatest danger in flying is the ground."

"The machine is a triumph of human ingenuity."

"We have not been able to do much with the machine on account of the bad weather."

"It is our view that morally the world owes its almost universal use of our system of lateral control entirely to us. It is also our opinion that legally it owes it to us."

"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…"