Octave Chanute ha scritto: "Ho sempre pensato che l'aviazione non sarebbe stata l'invenzione di un solo uomo. Personalmente non ho mai brevettato nulla e ho pubblicato tutti i miei progetti affinché potessero servire a tutti"

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Octave Chanute wrote that he "always believed that aviation would not have been the invention of one man alone and that personally he had never patented anything and had published all his plan so that they could be of use to everyone."