"One of the Life Saving men snapped the camera for us, taking a picture just as the machine had reached the end of the track and had risen to a height of about two feet"

This quote by Orville Wright is a testimony to the incredible achievement of the Wright siblings in their creation of the very first effective aircraft. The quote is explaining the minute when the Wright bros' device, the Flyer, had effectively finished its first flight. The Life Saving men, who existed at the scene, had taken a picture of the Flyer at the minute of its success. This photo was a testimony to the Wright bros' achievement and a pointer of the extraordinary feat they had achieved. The Flyer had risen to a height of 2 feet, an amazing task for a device that had actually just remained in development for a few years. This quote is a tip of the Wright bros' unbelievable achievement and the value of the photograph taken by the Life Saving guys. It is a pointer of the value of catching minutes of success and progress, and of the power of photography to file and maintain history.