Wright Brothers (Orville & Wilbur):

We were not as a matter of fact in the habit of thinking of the future. We were too busy with the present.

— Wright Brothers (Orville & Wilbur) Modern

First powered flight

Wilbur Wright, in a letter to Octave Chanute

1905

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