thought to be impossible: controlled, powered, heavier-than-air flight. It only lasted 12 seconds and covered 120 feet but that short trip, changed the world. Their story is told in the new book "The ...

The Wright brothers’ iconic lift off from Kitty Hawk is immortalized on Ohio license plates, in museums, in photos and in documentaries. It’s become a symbol of innovation and Ohio pride. That first ...

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 ...

Petrópolis, Brazil — Who invented the airplane? Questions don’t get much simpler. But in Brazil and the United States, the answer you’ll get isn’t likely to be the same. In 1903, U.S. schoolchildren ...

Enter the Wrights -- Prophets with some honor -- Teachers and first lessons -- Hitting a wall -- "We now hold all the records!" -- Ambiguous success -- Return to Dayton -- Into the world -- Noon into ...

Crouch and Jakab detail the lives and achievements of Orville and Wilbur Wright, on the occasion of the centennial of the first manned flight by the Wright Brothers on 17 December 1903 at Kitty Hawk, ...