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" I was right in front of it; and I said then, and I believe still, it was one of the grandest sights, if not the grandest sight of my life. Imagine a locomotive that has left its track, and is climbing up in the air right toward you — a locomotive without... "
Gleanings in Bee Culture - Page 38
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Zero 3 Bravo: Solo Across America in a Small Plane

Mariana Gosnell - 1994 - 388 pages
...toward you with a tremendous flap of its propellers, and you will have something like what I saw . . . one of the grandest sights, if not the grandest sight, of my life." Flap of its propellers! That evoked well enough the strangeness of what I was doing. From First Flight,...
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Race to the Sky: The Wright Brothers Versus the United States Government

Stephen B. Goddard - 2003 - 236 pages
...turning until the craft had made a full circle, flying some 4,000 feet in 90 seconds. Root called it "one of the grandest sights, if not the grandest sight of my life." It "outrivals the Arabian Nights," he told the readers of his magazine: Imagine a locomotive that has...
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To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight

James Tobin - 2004 - 464 pages
...was one of the grandest sights, if not the grandest sight, of my life." He groped for a comparison. "Imagine a locomotive that has left its track, and is climbing up in the air right toward you—a locomotive without any wheels we will say, but with white wings instead. ... Well, now imagine...
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Orville Wright: The Flyer

Janet Benge, Geoff Benge - 2006 - 212 pages
...springs aloft. When it first turned that circle and came near the starting point, I was right in front of it; and I said then, and I believe still, it was one...the grandest sight, of my life. Imagine a locomotive without any wheels, we will say, but with white wings instead, we will further say — a locomotive...
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