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No Flying Machine Will Ever Fly From New York To Paris .
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris ...
[because] no known motor can run at the requisite speed for
four days without stopping ...
-- Orville Wright (c. 1908)
Related:
New York, Tokyo, Paris, Hood Rive
I confess that in 1901, I said that man would not fly for 50 years. -- Wilbur Wright, 1908
As you know, birds do not have sexual organs because they would interfere with flight.
[In fact, this was the big breakthrough for the Wright Brothers....
To a Californian, a person must prove himself criminally insane before he is allowed to drive a taxi in New York.
For New York cabbies, honesty and stopping at red lights are both optional....
Woo Hoo! Good news everybody! Because I endangered lives, we can fly anywhere we want!
-- Homer Simpson Fear of Flying...
My writing is like a ten gallon spring. It can issue from the ground anywhere at all.
On smooth ground it rushes swiftly on and covers a thousand li in a single day without difficulty....
New York is where you can get the best cheap meal and the lousiest expensive meal in the country.
-- Robert C. Weave...