If the Wright Brothers were alive today, Orville would have to lay off Wilbur.
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If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.
I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.
Grounding airplanes to cover your butt would never have let Orville or Wilbur change the world. We would still be spending weeks to cross the Atlantic to do business in London.
The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.
As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.
Traveling Wilburys was always played in my house growing up.
We are ever on the threshold of new journeys and new discoveries. Can you imagine the excitement of the Wright brothers on the morning of that first flight? The anticipation of Jonas Salk as he analyzed the data that demonstrated a way to prevent polio?
There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after the Wright Brothers' first flight.
No-one can replace Richard Wright - he was my musical partner and my friend.
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