Orville Wright Quotes

Orville Wright was American aviation pioneer.

✵ 19. August 1871 – 30. January 1948
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Orville Wright Quotes

“We came down here for wind and sand, and we have got them.”

Letter to Katherine Wright, 18 October 1900; as published in Marvin W. McFarland, ed., The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1953), vol. 1, p. 37.

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