Ohio has adopted the 1905 Wright Flyer III as its official state airplane.Described as Orville and Wilbur Wright’s crowning achievement, the world’s first practical fixed-wing aircraft made ...

Alan Cruz builds a Wright Brothers biplane out of random LEGO parts during a meet up at the CO-Hatch in downtown Springfield, Ohio. On the third Wednesday of every month, a group of adults gathers ...

Alan Cruz builds a Wright Brothers biplane out of random LEGO parts during a meet up at the CO-Hatch in downtown Springfield, Ohio. On the third Wednesday of every month, a group of adults gathers at ...

The Franklin Institute has said a wealthy scion, long vilified for refusing to serve during World War I, gave them a treasured Wright-built plane. His family is challenging that account.

After the Wright brothers became the first people to successfully fly an airplane, they opened an aircraft factory in their hometown Dayton, Ohio. It was damaged in a fire at a building complex on ...

The Wright brothers, Wilbur and Orville, completed the first successful flight of a powered airplane back in 1903.

After the Wright Brothers Took Flight, They Built the World’s First Military Airplane The 1909 Military Flyer is the centerpiece of the “Early Flight” exhibition at the National Air and ...

The Smithsonian gave credit to its director, Samuel Pierpont Langley, whose plane crashed into the Potomac River shortly after takeoff. The Wrights were not pleased.

The flight is the result of a five-year project to build a new Wright lookalike airplane for educational and interpretive purposes, according to Don Adams, the organization's president.

The Wright brothers have made it to Mars - or at least a part of their plane has. NASA’s experimental Martian helicopter holds a small swatch of fabric from the 1903 Wright Flyer, the space ...

It’s flying, holy crap, it’s flying!” which we believe are the first words the Wright Brothers emitted when their plane first took off (that’s probably not true).