It’s a chilly, breezy day in December 1903. Wilbur Wright stands on the beach in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, staring at the ...

Learn about the birthplace of aviation when you visit this underrated national park complete with a museum focused on ...

Samuel Langley had succeeded in making several unmanned flights in the 1890s, and began working on a manned airplane he called an Aerodrome, with a grant from the Smithsonian, which he was the ...

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 ...

On December 17, 1903, near the windy dunes of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, history was made that would forever change how we look at the world and move about it. On that fateful morning, Orville and ...

The morning of Thursday, Dec. 17 dawned cold. A thin layer of ice covered the puddles of rainwater in the sand. The days were getting colder and the wind blowing from the north at a dangerous 20 to 27 ...

Orville Wright is at the controls of the "Wright Flyer" as his brother Wilbur Wright looks on during the plane's first flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C., in this Dec. 17, 1903 file photo. The Dayton Evening ...

KILL DEVIL HILLS, N.C. — It was 121 years ago Tuesday that Wilbur and Orville Wright etched their names in history and embarked on the first flight in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. They were the ...

On a recent trip to Dayton, I spent the day visiting some of its many Wright brothers sites. Despite being less than an hour away, Dayton is typically out of my purview for local history. But it ...

On Dec. 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk, N.C., with their first powered aircraft. The Wright brothers had invented the first successful airplane. They ...

The Wright brothers seemed like the most ordinary men in the world, but they were brilliant, self-taught inventors who made a ...