Written and illustrated by Brian Floca STORY SO FAR: After their wind-tunnel tests, Wilbur and Orville are ready to build a new glider, one they hope will overcome the many problems of their last o… ...

McCullough, whose acclaimed books include "Truman," "John Adams" and "1776," answers those questions but spends only half a page of "The Wright Brothers" on East Central Indiana, little more than ...

In the last 107 pages of the book there is vindication and recognition of the Wright Brothers here at home, in England, Germany and especially France. It is 1908.

How much do you really know about the Wright brothers, apart from what you gleaned from history books, that Orville and Wilbur Wright were bicycle mechanics who invented and flew the first plane ...

The wind is a physical presence on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.It is a shaping force, bending trees into gentle yet permanent curves, inexorably moving sand dunes into ever-greater heaps ...

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and state officials celebrated the 115th anniversary of the brothers’ first flight with a ceremony at the Wright Memorial atop Wright Brothers Hill on Monday.

The Wright brothers were to flight what Edison was to electricity. They weren’t first, they weren’t the best, bu tthey used the patent system to keep others from succeeding.

As the 100th anniversary of the first airplane flight approaches, a race is on to re-create the historic but temperamental Wright brothers 1903 Flyer, the motorized contraption of spruce, ash and m… ...

Some days there was no wind at all. Other days it roared in off the Atlantic, churning sand and shaking their tent. Soon enough, though, the brothers woke to a steady wind blowing in from the ...