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Success. Four flights Thursday morning. All against twenty-one mile wind. Started from… — Orville Wright

Telegram

Success. Four flights Thursday morning. All against twenty-one mile wind. Started from level with engine power alone. Average speed through air thirty-one miles. Longest 57 seconds. Inform press. Home Christmas.

Orville Wright
1903
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FlyingMoments of discovery
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Telegram
Time
1903
Person
Orville Wright
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Current citation
Wright, Orville. Quoted in To Fly: The Story of the Wright Brothers, written by Wendie C. Old. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002.
Original citation
Wright, Orville. Telegram to Reverend Milton Wright. 17 Dec. 1903.

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