When the Wright brothers finally succeeded in getting their flyer airborne, many didn’t believe they had really done it.

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The Dayton-made Wright Flyer III now just needs governor approval to become the official state airplane of Ohio, following ...

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 ...

Grand buildings, parades, pyrotechnics and exhibits drew visitors to Chilhowee Park for the 1910 Appalachian Exposition.

Orville and Wilbur Wright were inspired by Otto Lilienthal, a German glider pioneer. Though he crashed to his death in 1896, the Wrights were obsessed the technical problems involved in flight. They ...

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 ...

Ohio moved one step closer to making the Wright brothers' Wright Flyer III the official state airplane Wednesday following a unanimous Senate vote. Senate Bill 24, backed by local lawmaker Sen.

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 ...

They had a propeller the performance of which they could calculate. Engineering the age of flight NOVA: The Wright brothers were discovering aspects of flight that no one had known before.

While the Wright brothers are widely recognized as the fathers of flight, Brazilians believe the true inventor of the ...

It represents a unique moment in history when, on 17 December 1903, the Wright Brothers made the first ... aviation technology from that very first flight to the contemporary aircraft of today.