Persevere And Fly!

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"The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the ...
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ideas, and values ... "The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing.
The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together." ~~~ Bill Gates, MicrosoftI had the opportunity to recently visit the Outer Banks ofNorth Carolina. One of our stops was at The Wright BrothersNational Memorial at Kill Devil Hills.The Wrights, Wilbur and Orville, were the first to designand build a flying aircraft that could be *controlled* whilein the air.
No one up to this point had used the threecontrol factors; roll, pitch, and yaw. These threedimensions make it possible to fly from place to place.The aerospace business depends on this simple but brilliantidea.
So do spacecraft and submarines.This changed the way we view our world. Seen from above,distances shrink and the horizon stretches.
The world seemsgrander, more vast and three-dimensional. Open to endlesspossibilities.We talk about the perseverance needed to make our niche onthe internet today.
Just think of Wilbur and Orville.Their accomplishment certainly didn't happen overnight!Wilbur and Orville were 12 and 8 years of age, respectively,when their father brought home a simple toy rubberband-powered helicopter made in France. They were sointrigued by the concept and playing with it, it broke!Immediately, they began building copies.They were hooked on aviation!In 1900, as young men, having built their first glider,they decided to try it out at Kitty Hawk on Kill DevilHills.
It provided consistent stiff winds, and the somewhatcushioning effects of sand and water. That first flight wasunsuccessful, but it didn't deter them.After several more tries, on December 17, 1903, with a muchimproved bi-plane, they risked their lives and threw cautionto the wind.
They ended up flying the world's first poweredairplane.(Beginning at 10:35 a.m. that day, Orville flew it about120 feet in about 12 seconds.
About 12:00 p.m., Wilbur flewit 852 feet in 59 seconds)!Johnny Moore, one of five men who helped them that morningdrag the contraption across the frozen sand for positioning,ran to the village of Kitty Hawk crying, "They done it!They done it! Damned if they ain't flew."The birth of aviation!At this time, Wilbur was 36 and Orville 32. Roughly 24years had passed since their father gave them that toy!I got to thinking as we walked around the monument (with 40mph steady winds and pelting sand adding to the mood!) ofhow they never gave up.
The exhilaration they must havefelt when they realized they'd done it! Their perseverancehad paid off.If you have a dream, work at it. If it doesn't turn out asexpected the first time, don't give up! Try again! Whowants to live and say somewhere down the road, "if only"or "what if?" Stick to what you want to accomplish.Don't ever give up! "Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." ~~~ Calvin Coolidge Source: Free Articles from ArticlesFactory.com .