The invention of the airplane by Wilbur and Orville Wright is one of the great stories in American history. The Wright brothers’ invention not only solved a long-studied technical problem, but helped ...

The Wright brothers may have engineered the first plane, but that has nothing on history's largest aircraft. Here's how Kitty Hawk's finest hold up against an Airbus A380, Boeing 747, and the new ...

They were the first to demonstrate sustained flight of a heavier-than-air machine under complete control of the pilot. December 17 is nationally recognized as Wright Brothers Day. The brothers ...

On December 17, 1903, the Wright brothers flew their "Flyer" four times, with their longest flight lasting 59 seconds and covering 852 feet. With these flights, they became the first to ...

An enlarged image of the top of the new Ohio license plate, showing the banner streaming from the front of the Wright Flyer. In the Wright Brothers’ design, the plane’s elevators are on the ...

Image courtesy of Archives & Special ... which they argue benefited the Wright brothers experiments with plane construction, and detail an ongoing campaign led by Orville Wright to discredit ...

The brothers ... debt,” Wilbur Wright would write in September 1912. Lilienthal was a German engineer and a student of ...

Sunday 17 December, the First Flight Society will commemorate 120th anniversary of their accomplishment at the Wright Brothers National Memorial in North Carolina. Wright Brothers Day: 120th ...

The origins of flight are revealed at Wright Brothers National Memorial. On the morning of December 17, 1903 the sky dawned a pallid gray, temperatures hovered below freezing, and fierce winds ...

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — An early morning fire damaged a commercial building complex housing an historic airplane factory founded by the Wright Brothers in Ohio on Sunday, authorities said.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine unveiled the new standard Ohio license plate at a news conference Thursday morning, and observant Ohioans quickly pointed out that the “Birthplace of ...