The story of the Wright Brothers 07:40. Humans have dreamed of taking flight for centuries. But it wasn't until 1903 that the Wright Brothers -- Wilbur and Orville -- successfully flew a heavier ...

Everyone knows how the Wright brothers invented an aircraft that took them on a first, iconic flight in 1903. What they might ...

The Wright brothers’ feat was “under the control of the pilot. It was a powered flight,” Jakab says. It took off and landed at the same height, which shows that it was advanced enough to not ...

The Wright Brothers have been called the fathers of aviation, brothers whose lift-off above a sand dune in Kitty Hawk, N. C., 110 years ago radically changed the course of the 20th century.

Such knowledge makes the achievements of the Wright Brothers all the more remarkable. In his outstanding new book on the brothers, The Wright Brothers, David McCullough notes, In no way did any of ...

By 1908, though, the Wright brothers were poised to win their Army contract. The Army demanded just one thing: While the Wright Flyers had until then carried only a pilot, ...

More His brother, Orville was the pilot. Getty Images This article is timed to coincide with the 117 th anniversary – December 17 – of the Wright brothers’ historic flight at Kitty Hawk ...

Lesson #3: Keep going, no matter what. Fortunately, the brothers were not obsessed with media attention; they were obsessed with their idea. So they kept trying to improve and test their machine.

You won't fly cross country in a Wright Brothers plane. But their invention and discovery more than 100 years ago launched aviation to what it is now.

In the U.S., the Wright brothers are recognized for making history with the world's first airplane flight. In Brazil, the first aviator goes by the name of Santos-Dumont.

That’s what an angry Orville Wright, the surviving Wright brother, protested in 1925. The label, put on display a few years earlier, set off a nearly 20-year feud between the Smithsonian and Wright.