Here’s how it works. The Wright brothers' first airplane flight on Dec. 17, 1903, lasted only 12 seconds, and news of the achievement appeared in just four newspapers the next morning.

In 1949 the Library of Congress acquired 303 glass plate negatives developed by the Wright brothers ... the brothers honed their camera skills as they documented their flight research.

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 ...

You won't fly cross country in a Wright Brothers plane. But their invention and discovery more than 100 years ago launched ...

McMahon, made a passionate case for why the Wright brothers deserved to be acknowledged as the first to achieve powered flight. His unique account included exclusive interviews with Orville Wright ...

In 1903, Orville Wright made history's first sustained airplane flight, lasting 12 seconds and covering 120 feet near Kitty Hawk, N.C. His brother Wilbur flew 852 feet later that day. In 1925 ...

Wright Brothers National Memorial sits at 1000 North Croatan Highway, Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. The site opens daily ...

In 1912 the idea of flight was still new to most people, including those who lived in Marietta. The idea that man could ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — History was made on this day 121 years ago when the Wright Brothers ran the first powered flight in human history. On the anniversary of the historic flight, the San ...

Page received a patent for a flying machine before the Wright brothers and prior to their first powered, sustained and controlled airplane flight has been circulating online for years. According ...

MANTEO, N.C. — Multiple people died after a single-engine plane crashed Saturday afternoon in a wooded area at Wright Brothers National Memorial’s First Flight Airport, the National Park ...