We all know the Wright Brothers changed the history of flying—but what exactly was their groundbreaking discovery? For the ...

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 ...

Orville and Wilbur Wright flew their 1903 Wright Flyer 120 feet in the air more than a century ago today. In 1963, a House Joint Resolution passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate ...

Today, Wilbur and Orville Wright are as synonymous with the first to achieve powered flight as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are with the first to walk on the moon. But it wasn’t always so. In a four ...

Although many think that the Wright brothers were the first men to attempt air flight in the United States, quite the ...

Kill Devils Hill, NC -- Five years after the first flight in North Carolina, Wilbur Wright staged a flight in France that finally convinced a skeptical public on both sides of the Atlantic that humans ...

A historic complex housing a former airplane factory founded by the Wright Brothers in Dayton, Ohio, was damaged in an early Sunday morning fire. Fire crews were on the scene by 2:30 a.m. and found ...

MORAINE, Ohio (WDTN) — A new hiking trail honoring the Wright Brothers has opened in Moraine. The Wright Brothers Pinnacles Historical Hiking Trail is now open to the public. The trail is located on ...