Aviation Pioneer
1871 - 1948
American aviator who, with his brother Wilbur, achieved the first powered, sustained, and controlled airplane flight. Their invention launched the age of aviation.
If we worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, there would be little hope of advance.
Orville Wright
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
Orville Wright
The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.
Orville Wright
We were lucky enough to grow up in an environment where there was always much encouragement to children to pursue intellectual interests; to investigate whatever aroused curiosity.
Orville Wright