Long before airplanes became routine, the Wright brothers’ push to prove their flying machine to the U.S. Army at Fort Myer ...

Learn how Wilbur Wright achieved the first controlled turn in powered flight on September 15, 1904, a milestone that helped ...

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 ...

After a mysterious and lengthy disappearance, the historic patent documents for the Wright Brothers' groundbreaking flying machine have finally resurfaced and are now at home in the National Archives ...

The Wright brothers’ Dayton, Ohio, landmarks have been added to the World Monuments Fund’s “Irreplaceable America” list. This designation recognizes the sites crucial to the development of powered ...

The world’s first flight officially took off from North Carolina’s Outer Banks on this day in history, Dec. 17, 1903. The Wright brothers were allegedly the first to successfully fly a powered and ...

Multiple people have been reported dead following the crash of a single-engine plane at Wright Brothers National Memorial's First Flight Airport in Manteo, NC, on Saturday afternoon. Five people ...

The five people killed aboard a single-engine plane that crashed and caught fire at Wright Brothers National Memorial’s First Flight Airport in North Carolina over the weekend have been identified, ...

The label on the aircraft displayed at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., read: “The first man-carrying aeroplane in the history of the world capable of sustained free flight. Invented, ...