DALLAS — Today, in 1903, the Wright brothers made the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier-than-air ...

Today, Wilbur and Orville Wright are as synonymous with the first to achieve powered flight as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin ...

Since the Wright brothers’ first flight in 1903, aviation has evolved at a breathtaking pace, shaping human history and ...

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.

On Dec. 17, 1903, two brothers from Dayton, Ohio, harnessed the winds of North Carolina's Outer Banks to take flight.

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 ...

Wilbur and Orville Wright conducted the first successful manned, powered airplane flights near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

His family is challenging that account. Grover C. Bergdoll flying the plane he bought from the Wright brothers. It is now on exhibit at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.Credit...The Bergdoll ...

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.

McMahon, made a passionate case for why the Wright brothers deserved ... version did achieve flight, however, it included crucial modifications to Langley’s original design, which the ...