"The heavens are still beyond us."

"In our new way West, we will fly in a few hours, over landscapes the pioneers labored months and years to cross."

"Here on July 4th, in the Year of Our Lord 1831, I am about to take a flight above the ground and earth and into the s…"

"[Before ascending, Ezekiel reads a poem to his small crowd]"

"[After showing the first form of aviation, hot-air-balloons] But America is still the domain of the horizontal, and s…"

"The traditional community testified to human limits, and its boundaries were in the world of the horizontal. But thes…"

"This development of mobility and rapid transport has no parallel in all human history. And the telescoping of time ha…"

"Once, the shining sea of the West was limits and boundary. Now, lands-end, there's no longer the end of the line."

"We first flew in dreams, and the dream of flying has become real. We have extended our limits and seen our world from…"

"We have come a long way from a time when people gazed enviously upon the birds in-flight. Today, we look upon our pla…"