Everyone wanted to be the first in the air - but only the Wright Brothers made it. From Kitty Hawk to aviation history, this ...

On Dec. 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk, N.C., with their first powered aircraft. The Wright brothers had invented the first successful airplane. They ...

While Holgreve helped to build some of the world’s first flying machines, another Ohio woman was essential to ensuring the planes would truly take off: the Wright brothers’ kid sister, Katharine. “She ...

Longest glider flight, 8 years after their first powered flight. Oct. 24, 2011 — -- "For some years," wrote Wilbur Wright in 1900, "I have been afflicted with the belief that flight is possible ...

Ohio has more than 1,750 historical markers noting people, events and things to know about the state’s history. Nearly 250 of those are in the nine-county Dayton region. Today, we feature the marker ...

EAA's Wright Brothers Memorial Banquet on December 12 will honor the 100th Bomb Group and Apple TV+'s Masters of the Air, ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Crouch discusses the long-running feud between the Wright Brothers and the Smithsonian Institution over whether the 1903 "Aerodrome" designed by ...

Petrópolis, Brazil — Who invented the airplane? Questions don’t get much simpler. But in Brazil and the United States, the answer you’ll get isn’t likely to be the same. In 1903, U.S. schoolchildren ...