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 ...

He took inspiration from German engineer Otto Lilienthal, who had come up with nearly 20 models for gliders—fixed-wing aircraft that stay aloft with the help of rising currents of air, similar to ...

KILL DEVIL HILLS, N.C. — It was 121 years ago Tuesday that Wilbur and Orville Wright etched their names in history and embarked on the first flight in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. They were the ...

Orville and Wilbur Wright flew their 1903 Wright Flyer 120 feet in the air more than a century ago today. In 1963, a House Joint Resolution passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate ...

Kill Devil Hills, the site of the Wright brothers' first flight, has transformed from a remote location to a popular tourist destination, with the original airfield now a national park. First Flight ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ASHEBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — At the beginning of ...

On Dec. 17, 1903, two brothers from Dayton, Ohio, harnessed the winds of North Carolina's Outer Banks to take flight. Orville Wright took the 1903 Wright Flyer into the air at 10:35 a.m. with his ...

It will have been 110 years on Dec. 17 since the Wright brothers made their historic first flight on a cold windy morning in North Carolina. Many people know that Wilbur and Orville Wright made the ...

The debate over who truly invented the airplane centers on two names: the Wright brothers and Brazilian aviator Alberto ...

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Today is the 121st anniversary of the first flight by the Wright Brothers in 1903. Numerous places in Dayton are critical to the history of flight and wonderful places to visit on the anniversary of ...

The Wright brothers are the obvious Dayton connection to flight. But not even the brothers could have imagined the many feats of greatness spurred by the invention of flight, especially those done in ...