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the statements of [[red underline]] Langley [[/red underline]] if analyzed amount practically to perpetual motion as he infers that the greater the speed the less power would be required.  They carried out these experiments in North Carolina at the same place selected formerly for their gliding experiments.  This had many disadvantages because this place was formerly selected on account of the prevailing winds.  For gliding they needed wind, but for flying wind was a serious drawback.  But just on this account they were confronted right at the start with the very conditions which would frequently exist in practice and they had to cope with the problem in a thoroughly practical fashion.
[[strikethrough]] His [[/strikethrough]] ^[[This]] first flying machine carried a motor rating about
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[[red underline]] 65 horsepower [[/red underline]]
per 100 lbs. which he says was about as well as they ever did before.  Their [[red underline]] first flight lasted ninety seconds. [[/red underline]] I am not quite sure about the absolute correctness of this but I know it was about [[overwritten]] a [[/overwritten]] one minute and O. Wright expressed it in seconds.  They [[red underline]] sent a telegram to their father [[/red underline]] announcing the result and thru some indiscretion of a telegraph employe the news was divulged and next day the daily press of the United States published the news broadcast to [[red underline]] their great disgust. [[/red underline]] Their intention had been to keep their work secret and to continue quietly their experiments until their machine was perfect enough to sell it to the [[red underline]] United States Government [[/red underline]] for a lump sum.  They did not desire to make a regular business of their flying machine and were much adverse to go themselves into manufacturing