Manufacturers such as Huffy, then operating as the Davis Sewing Machine Company, and the Wright Cycle Company made Dayton an ...

The breakthrough propeller, its blades shaped by hatchet and drawknife from two-ply spruce, was sheathed in linen and sealed with aluminum powder mixed into a heavy varnish. Eric Long We believe in ...

Preface: The Wright myth -- Part 1: Preflight. The biographer, 1942 ; The letter, 1948 ; The murderer, 1884 ; Steam bugs, 1896 ; Typhoid, 1896 ; Inventors, 1900 ...

The story of the first powered flight, and how a fragile aircraft in 1903 changed commerce, warfare, and human movement ...

Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first successful flight in history of a self-propelled, heavier-than-air aircraft on ...

Jun. 23—A bronze statue of Harry Toulmin has stood eight feet tall for 18 years across Main Street from Springfield's Bushnell Building. But so that everyone who catches the elevator inside will know ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than a century ago, Wilbur and Orville Wright “slipped the surly bonds of earth” and took to the skies. “It was amazing what they did,” says Charles Fields. “We are so accustomed to flying today ...

The Wright Brothers National Memorial will host an event on Dec. 17 at 8:30 a.m. to celebrate the 122nd anniversary of the Wright Brothers’ first flight. The ...

Today our Nation celebrates the heroic moment America took to the skies when Orville and Wilbur Wright launched the first controlled, machine-powered ...

Who you are is shaped by your circumstance. Wilbur Wright was a brilliant young man from a well-to-do family, and the circumstances of his life compelled him to magnificent accomplishments. The elder ...