Wilbur Wright Quotes
Men will sometimes fly, but it will not be in our lifetime.
Two years later he flew. That is how fast and dramatic the Wright Brothers work had gone. Once they got on the right track, everything began to fall into place. Two years earlier he had been optimistic. See {613170}.
Wilbur Wright, 1867-1912, Co-inventor of the airplane, 1901
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Four years later he flew, but he became pessimistic along the way. See {613169}.
Ataturk quickly envisioned the importance of the airplane. He even sent is daughter to Russia to learn to fly a plane, and she became the first Turkish Military Officer to do so. This was typical of Ataturk—killing two or more reform “birds” with one stone. He not only brought the airplane into the Turkish consciousness by having his daughter fly which attracted great attention of the press and got people talking, but showed that women were capable of the most complex technological tasks. Before Ataturk, few women in Turkey ever did anything but parenting and homemaking. Ataturk gave Turkish women the vote before America adopted women’s suffrage.
Cayley developed the first gliders and envisioned air travel at the same time that Thomas Jefferson was President.
- Born: April 16, 1867
- Died: May 30, 1912
- Nationality: American
- Profession: Inventor
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.
