Wilbur Working In The Bike Shop "History was being made in their bicycle shop and in their home but the making was so obscured by the common place I did not recognize it until many years later." Milton Wright nephew of the Wrights

7 Hawthorn Street “If I were to give a young man advice as to how he might succeed in life. I would say to him, pick out a good Father and Mother and begin life in Ohio.” Wilbur Wright

Kite Flying At Kitty Hawk "We tried it with the tail in front, behind and every other way. When we got through, Will was so mixed up he couldn’t even theorize. It has been with considerable effort that I succeeded in keeping him in the flying business at all." Orville Wright

View From The Top Of Kill Devil Hill  "For some years I have been afflicted with the belief that flight is possible to man. My disease has increased in severity and I feel that it will soon cost me an increased amount of money if not my life. I have been trying to arrange my affairs in such a way that I can devote my entire time for a few months to experiment in this field." Wilbur Wright letter to Octave Chanute 1900

Gliding Off Of Kill Devil Hill  "It has occurred to me that you would get still flatter glides by making sure that the center of gravity coincides exactly with the center of pressure, and possible by decreasing the angle of your rudder to 4 degrees. Please take plenty of snapshots”. Letter from Octave Chanute to Wilbur Wright August 19, 1901

November 24, 1903 Wright Brothers At Kitty Hawk “Wind of 15 miles blowing from west and northwest in morning. We completed repairs by noon and got the machine out on the tracks in front of the building ready for a trial from the level. The wind was gradually dying and by the time we were ready was blowing only about 10 miles. After waiting several hours to see whether it would breeze up again we took the machine back in.” Orville Wright’s diary November 24, 1903

First Flight . "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.” Orville Wright’s diary entry December 17, 1903

Flight #41 at Huffman Prairie "The ground was a perfect blur, but as the plane rose higher the objects below became clearer. At the height of a hundred feet you feel almost no motion at all, except the wind that strikes your face. If you did not take the precaution to fasten your hat before starting, you have probably lost it by now." Orville Wright

Flight #85 At Huffman Prairie “When you know, after the first few minutes, that the whole mechanism is working perfectly, the sensation is so keenly delightful as to be almost beyond description. Nobody who has not yet experienced it for himself can realize it.” Wilbur Wright

Brothers “From the time we were little children my brother Orville and myself lived together, played together and worked together, and in fact thought together. We talked over our thoughts and our aspirations so that nearly everything that was done in our lives has been the results of conversations, suggestions and discussions between us.” Wilbur Wright

Amos Root “When it turned that circle, and came near the starting point, I was right in front of it, and I said then, and I believe still, it was the greatest sight of my life. Imagine a locomotive that left it’s tracks and climbed up in the air right toward you. A locomotive without any wheels but with wings instead, spread 20 feet each way, coming right towards you with a tremendous flap of it’s propeller and you have something like what I saw. I tell you friends the sensation that one feels is something hard to describe.” Amos Root witnessing a full 180 degrees turn September 20, 1905

"Higher, Orville, Higher!" Bishop Milton Wright’s 1st Flight

LeMans Race Track .“It is not really necessary to look too far into the future. We have seen enough already to see that it will be magnificent. Only let us hurry and open the roads.” Wilbur Wright at Aero Club France 1908

Walking The Boulevard des Pyrenees, Pau, France . “Every time we make a move, the people on the street stop and stare at us. We have our pictures taken every two minute.” Katharine Wright

The Infinite Highway Of The Air .“The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air.” Wilbur Wright

Horse Drawn Carriages .“Scarcely ten years ago, all hope had almost been abandoned; even the most convinced had become doubtful, and I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that men would not fly for fifty years. Two years later, we ourselves were making flights.” Wilbur Wright

Speed Test At Ft Myer .“He flew 67 minutes in a 16 mile wind, handling his plane like a chauffeur, and road the wind as deliberately as if he were passing over a solid macadam road. Nothing I have ever seen is comparable in action to this gliding bird.” Gutzon Borglum

Test Flight On The Miami River "Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!” Orville Wright

"Family" But it isn’t true to say we had no special advantage…the greatest thing in our favor was growing up in a family where there was always much encouragement to intellectual curiosity. Orville Wright

Scipio “When Orville Wright dies in 1948 they only found one photograph in his wallet. It wasn’t of the first flight, or of his sister or parents or of he and his brother. It was a photograph of his dog Scipio who had died 25 years earlier.” Steve Wright, great-grandnephew