It was 121 years ago Tuesday that Wilbur and Orville Wright etched their names in history and embarked on the first flight in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. They were the first to demonstrate ...

Younger brother Orville, who "was always very optimistic," as their grand-nephew, Wick Wright, tells THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, finally coaxed Wilbur out of the house and into his printing business.

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 ...

Wilbur and Orville Wright, colloquially known as the Wright Brothers, are credited with flying the first powered, heavier-than-air and controlled aircraft. Paone said aviators previously flew ...

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 ...

Numerous places in Dayton are critical to the history of flight and wonderful places to visit on the anniversary of flight by Orville and Wilbur Wright. Here are five of them: Considered the first ...

National and international bestselling author Tracey Enerson Wood will be visiting Mount Airy this week, taking part in a ...

120 years ago, Orville and Wilbur Wright made the breakthrough that would allow humans to reach the heavens and beyond. They achieved what no one else had until then, the first successful flight ...