Carolina QuotesWe came down here for wind and sand, and we have got them.
Orville Wright Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Letter to Katharine Wright, (18 October 1900); as published in The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright (1953), edited by Marvin W. McFarland), Vol. 1, p. 37
- form
- letter
- year
- 1900
- locator
- p. 37
Cite this record
“We came down here for wind and sand, and we have got them.” Orville Wright. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-2FCAAD4F2B. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/2fcaad4f2b
More from Orville Wright
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
We dared to hope we had invented something that would bring lasting peace to the earth. But we were wrong ... I don't have any regrets about my part in the invention of the airplane, though no one could deplore more than I do the destruction it has caused. I feel about the airplane much the same as I do in regard to fire. That is, I regret all the terrible damage caused by fire, but I think it is good for the human race that someone discovered how to start fires and that we have learned how to put fire to thousands of important uses.
At twenty minutes after eleven Wilbur started on the second flight. The course of this flight was much like that of the first, very much up and down. The speed over the ground was somewhat faster than that of the first flight, due to the lesser wind. The duration of the flight was less than a second longer than the first, but the distance covered was about seventy-five feet greater.