Aviation enthusiasts have a new gift coming their way courtesy of Google Earth Pro, which now has flight simulators available ...

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.

They were the first to demonstrate sustained flight of a heavier-than-air machine under complete control of the pilot. December 17 is nationally recognized as Wright Brothers Day. The brothers ...

Because the Wright brothers solved the problem of sustained, controlled flight, humans soon conquered the skies. Aircraft have been used in war since almost the beginning, but flight has also ...

(Not exactly.) Wilbur and Orville Wright, the legendary brothers, together invented manned mechanical flight. To deconstruct that myth today, all we really have to go on are two foundational ...

Later that year, when Wilbur finally made his demonstration flight around a racetrack in France before a small crowd of spectators, the French realized the Wright brothers had moved far beyond ...

For one thing, the Wright Brothers were publicity shy and fiercely ... dismissiveness about any claims to have achieved sustained flight. In the end, however, it really came down to the fact ...

A grandniece to the pioneering Ohio brothers, Amanda Wright Lane, testified in February that the 1905 plane was “their Tesla,” and represented the beginning of a human flight plan to Mars.

Their feat was so momentous that license plates in both North Carolina ("First In Flight") and Ohio ... a bill this year that discredits the Wright brothers. Whitehead apparently flew for 1.5 ...

A grandniece to the pioneering Ohio brothers, Amanda Wright Lane, testified in February that the 1905 plane was “their Tesla,” and represented the beginning of a human flight plan to Mars.