Partly due to Wright's legal obstructions, the US lagged behind European air forces in WWI and had to fly British and French ...

I n 1903, the Wright brothers made the first sustained human flight, flying the first plane above Kitty Hawk, North Carolina ...

This principle, which the Wright brothers called "wing warping," was a revolutionary break-through. In 1900 they built a full-size, piloted version of a box kite and tested its control mechanisms ...

Neither Lilienthal nor the Wright brothers were isolated in their pursuit; as the 19th century came to a close, researchers ...

The famous Wright brothers were not the first to fly, nor were they the first to accomplish powered flight. They weren't even ...

So he offered to try to get Andrew Carnegie to supply funds. WILBUR WRIGHT TO OCTAVE CHANUTE December 23,1901 As to your suggestion in regard to Mr. Carnegie, of course nothing would give me ...

To celebrate Veterans Day, entrance fees will be waived at Wright Brothers National Memorial, and other fee-collecting parks ...

Wilbur Wright died in 1912, and Orville Wright decided to sell the company in 1915. In 1916, a new merged company was created as the Wright-Martin Company. The venture, which moved operations to ...

If you flew to Outer Banks, you have the Wright Brothers to thank. In the early 1900s, Orville and Wilbur moved here from Ohio for the area's steady winds to pursue their aviation dreams.

Sept. 29 (UPI) --A single-engine airplane crashed into the woods near the Wright Brothers National Memorial's First Flight Airport in Manteo, North Carolina. Eyewitnesses told investigators with the ...