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" It is very much the same in learning to ride a flying machine; if you are looking for perfect safety, you will do well to sit on a fence and watch the birds; but if you really wish to learn, you must mount a machine and become acquainted with its tricks... "
Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution - Page 129
by Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1903
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Flying: The Record of Aerial Navigation

1901 - 296 pages
...out the- best way of overcoming his jumps and kicks. The latter system is the safest, but the former on the whole turns out the larger proportion of good riders. It is very much the same thing in learning to ride a flying machine. If you are looking for perfect safety you will do well...
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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1903 - 1122 pages
...out the best way of overcoming his jumps and kicks. The latter system is the safest, but the former, on the whole, turns out the larger proportion of good...ride a flying machine; if you are looking for perfect safet}r, you will do well to sit on a fence and watch the birds; but if you really wish to learn, you...
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The Aero Manual: A Manual of Mechanically-propelled Human Flight, Covering ...

1909 - 196 pages
...out 'the best way of overcoming his jumps and kicks. The latter system is the safer ; but the former, on the whole, turns out the larger proportion of good...well to sit on a fence and watch the birds ; but if you really wish to learn, you must mount a machine and become acquainted with its tricks by actual...
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Epitome of the Aeronautical Annual

James Means - 1910 - 272 pages
...out the larger proportion of good riders. It is much the same in learning to ride a flying-machine; if you are looking for perfect safety, you will do...well to sit on a fence and watch the birds, but if you really wish to learn, you must mount a machine and become acquainted with its tricks by actual...
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The Aero Manual

Motor - 1910 - 240 pages
...out the best way of overcoming his jumps and kicks. The latter system is the safer; but the former, on the whole, turns out the larger proportion of good...riders. It is very much the same in learning to ride a ilying machine; if you are looking for perfect safety, you will do well to sit on a fence and watch...
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The Romance of Aeronautics: An Interesting Account of the Growth ...

Charles Cyril Turner - 1912 - 384 pages
...out the best way of overcoming his jumps and kicks. The latter system is the safer, but the former, on the whole, turns out the larger proportion of good...well to sit on a fence and watch the birds; but if you really wish to learn, you must mount a machine and become acquainted with its tricks by actual...
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The Marvels of Aviation: Describing in Non-technical Language the Beginnings ...

Charles Cyril Turner - 1917 - 360 pages
...out the best way of overcoming his jumps and kicks. The latter system is the safer, but the former, on the whole, turns out the larger proportion of good...well to sit on a fence and watch the birds; but if you really wish to learn, you must mount a machine and become acquainted with its tricks by actual...
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A History of Aeronautics

Evelyn Charles Vivian - 1921 - 648 pages
...out the best way of overcoming his jumps and kicks. The latter system is the safer, but the former, on the whole, turns out the larger proportion of good...well to sit on a fence and watch the birds, but if you really wish to learn you must mount a machine and become acquainted with its tricks by actual trial....
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Beacon Lights of History: New hall of fame. Premier personalities

John Lord - 1924 - 1012 pages
...out the best way of overcoming his jumps and kicks. The latter system is the safer, but the former, on the whole, turns out the larger proportion of good...are looking for perfect safety, you will do well to si^pn a fence and watch the birds, but if you really wish to learn, you must mount a machine and become...
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The Conquest of the Air: An Historical Survey

Cecil Leonard Morley Brown - 1927 - 154 pages
...out the best way of overcoming his jumps and kicks. The latter system is the safer, but the former, on the whole, turns out the larger proportion of good...riders. It is very much the same in learning to ride a flying-machine ; if you are looking for perfect safety you will do well to sit on a fence and watch...
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