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 first to demonstrate ...

The possibility that someone may have flown a powered airplane before the Wright brothers is back in the news. Over the years a number of candidates have been suggested for first-flight honors.

The invention of the airplane by Wilbur and Orville Wright is one of the great stories in American history. The Wright brothers’ invention not only solved a long-studied technical problem, but helped ...

Orville was the born engineer, Wilbur the visionary. The brothers' partnership started after a hockey accident seriously injured 18-year-old Wilbur, leaving him in a state of depression for nearly ...

At first, since the Wright Brothers had been toiling in relative obscurity, French aviators heralded Santos Dumont’s flight as the world’s first. Now, much to Brazil’s distress, the French and most of ...

How is it that two bicycle-shop owners from Dayton, Ohio, managed to do what many others before them had tried but failed to do—invent the airplane? In this interview, Wright biographer and ...

The first Appalachian Exposition opened at Chilhowee Park Sep. 12, 1910 and ran through Oct. 12, 1910. Of the additions made to the park for the fair, only the marble bandstand remains at ...

The people who are said to have developed the world's first powered airplane and succeeded in manned powered flight are the American Wright Brothers. However, in Brazil, for several reasons, it is ...

If you flew to Outer Banks, you have the Wright Brothers to thank. In the early 1900s, Orville and Wilbur moved here from Ohio for the area's steady winds to pursue their aviation dreams.

IT’S ALL ORVILLE’S FAULT. THE WRIGHT BROTHERS' FIRST POWERED AIRPLANE made four short flights at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 17, 1903. After the last one, as the brothers stood ...

A local small business owner is honoring a piece of Dayton history in his shop. Shane Anderson, owner of Ghostlight Coffee and Gather by Ghostlight, has on display a wing rib from a 22-year-old ...

Two people were taken to the hospital after a rollover crash Wednesday night near Wright Brothers Boulevard.According to the ...