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"We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th."
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"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
"It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to."
"The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold."
"Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired - up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy."
"With these kinds of proposals, the devil is in the details. We're going to examine this realignment closely. We will fight any measure that compromises our needs - now or in the future."
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"One of the Life Saving men snapped the camera for us, taking a picture just as the machine had reached the end of the track and had risen to a height of about two feet."
"We were then satisfied that, with proper lubrication and better adjustments, a little more power could be expected. The completion of the motor according to drawing was, therefore, proceeded with at once."
"The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines."
"If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance."
"No data on air propellers was available, but we had always understood that it was not a difficult matter to secure an efficiency of 50% with marine propellers."
"Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!"
"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."
"In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power."
"A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight."
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