You won't fly cross country in a Wright Brothers plane. But their invention and discovery more than 100 years ago launched ...

Once the Wright Brothers had invented a practical and consistently flyable machine (what we now call an airplane) in 1903, ...

He was an aviation pioneer, the father of controlled flight, the subject of a Glenn Ford movie, and yet most outside ...

He never attempted to fly again. The Smithsonian Institute Archives notes that Langley provided information on aeronautics to young bicycle makers, and was crushed when the Wright Brothers had success ...

DALLAS — Today, in 1903, the Wright brothers made the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft with the Wright Flyer. The flights took place 4 miles (6 km) south of ...

Today, December 17th, marks the 121st anniversary of the first flight. The flight was famously conducted by the Wright brothers in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The two brothers, Orville and Wilbur, are ...

When he was still a boy making long, tedious trips between his school and his woodsy home in the mountains during the 1980s, ...

A feature film about two of Dayton's most notable residents is in the works. Upon release, the film's leaders say that it ...