“ The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall. ”
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance.
~ Orville Wright
Learning the secret of flight from a bird was a good deal like learning the secret of magic from a magician.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.
