Orville Wright Quotes
In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.
Wright, Orville. "How We Made the First Flight." Flying, Dec. 1913, pp. 10-12.
La Guardia was the first member of Congress with flying experience and was alarmed that although Americans had invented the airplane, most airplanes were developed and manufactured in Europe and not America:
He lost to a career politician, Truman Newberry and was very bitter. See {603299}.
While this is generally true, from the scientific point of view, it is not quite right. The layman and most engineers believe that scientists discover things that exist. Although they do most of the time, breakthrough’s of the last century have for example discovered new chemical elements, but there are a few that science has CREATED—they exist nowhere in nature. Scientists are beginning to develop new life forms as well as discovering already existing ones. For over a century now the science of metallurgy has created thousands of alloys that did not previously exist.
The Wright brothers – Orville and Wilbur (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912) – were two American aviation pioneers generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful motor-operated airplane. They made the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft with the Wright Flyer on December 17, 1903, 4 mi (6 km) south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
