KILL DEVIL HILLS, N.C. — A sculpture of the Wright brothers and their Flyer at start of the first manned, powered flight is a magnet for children — and adults — who like their history hands-on.

The Wright brothers’ plane, made of spruce and fabric, got barely 10 feet off the ground and landed 12 seconds later in the sands of Kitty Hawk, N.C. Subscribe Archives ...

DAYTON — An early morning fire damaged a commercial building complex housing a former airplane factory founded by the Wright Brothers in Ohio on Sunday, authorities said. Dayton fire crews were ...

By contrast, the Bridgeport Herald reported that on Aug. 14 ... heavier than air plane. But the Wright brothers' impact on aviation was and is still huge. Nearly all airplanes are still based ...

An iconic piece of American history took a nosedive when the 100th-anniversary issue of an annual aviation bible known as Jane's All the World's Aircraft displaced the Wright brothers as the first ...

LONDON, Feb. 8.—The aeronautic world experienced a sensation this week, when it was announced that an aeroplane constructed by the Wright brothers at Dorking, a few miles out of London ...

The Wright Brothers in Montgomery, Alabama, 1910," examines the Wrights' Montgomery flying school through the eyes of the Alabama press, including the Birmingham Age-Herald. That newspaper noted ...

On August 18, 1901, Richard Howell, a reporter for the Bridgeport Sunday Herald, published an account ... Whitehead gliders in the air. The Wright brothers’ 1903 Flyer, on display at the ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The same Ohio river valley where the Wright brothers pioneered human flight will soon be manufacturing cutting-edge electric planes that take off and land vertically, under an ...

After spending two decades in exile at the Science Museum in London, UK, the Wright brothers’ original aircraft has been on display at the Smithsonian since 1948. As Smithsonian secretary ...