Benjamin Franklin did fly a kite with a key to discover electricity. (Not exactly.) Wilbur and Orville Wright, the legendary brothers, together invented manned mechanical flight. To deconstruct ...

Jim Preston, National Air and Space Museum Wilbur and Orville Wright didn’t care much for attention. But after publicly demonstrating their flying machine, the inventors of the airplane became ...

Bugatti-Diatto Avio 8C, set to be a headliner at the Bonhams|Cars Quail Auction on August 15, debuted as a completed car in ...

Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated the name of the actress portraying Katharine Wright. She is Jessica Michnia. DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — The names of Orville and Wilbur Wright ...

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

Younger brother Orville, who "was always very optimistic," as their grand-nephew, Wick Wright, tells THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, finally coaxed Wilbur out of the house and into his printing business.

Aviation pioneers Orville and Wilbur Wright succeeded in achieving the first powered, sustained, and controlled airplane flight on the Outer Banks on Dec. 17, 1903. The National Park Service will ...

Among those who never knew how that turned out was Wilbur Wright, who died two years before ... reporting Wilbur's death, Orville blamed it "on the seemingly interminable legal fight" for the ...

Described as Orville and Wilbur Wright's crowning achievement, the world's first practical fixed-wing aircraft made its seminal sustained flight in an Ohio cow pasture called Huffman Prairie ...