"We had to be our own mechanics, our own engineers, and our own scientists."

"The first great principle of success in flying is to learn to soar without power."

"In its campaign to discredit others in the flying art, the Smithsonian has issued scores of these false and misleading statements."

"We could not understand how it was that the best scientists could not fly a machine. We thought that they must be working on the wrong principle."

"The only difference between us and others is that we have made a more thorough study of the problem."