The historic tale of the Wright Brothers and the invention of flying is getting the movie treatment via Wonder Project, the ...

Partly due to Wright's legal obstructions, the US lagged behind European air forces in WWI and had to fly British and French ...

See airplanes of all sizes, shapes and colors from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest ...

Before they built the world’s first powered, heavier-than-air, and controllable aircraft, Wilbur and Orville Wright were two ...

Jakab), and a new edition of The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright (Norton, 2003). Note: This interview is illustrated with period postcards showing the Wrights and their airplanes.

The story of the Wright brothers’ groundbreaking achievements in aviation is well-documented, but their sister, Katharine Wright’s contribution often goes unnoticed | Feminism, Women's Rights ...

Not Wilbur and Orville Wright. The brothers rose and dressed in suits, stiff collared shirts, ties, and caps. They rolled their flying machine—a homemade apparatus of spruce, ash, and muslin—to a ...

The Wright brothers' first airplane flight on Dec. 17, 1903, lasted only 12 seconds, and news of the achievement appeared in just four newspapers the next morning. However, the groundbreaking 120 ...

From pirates to first flight, Coastal North Carolina can be called "the most historical place in the United States of America ...