COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio has adopted the 1905 Wright Flyer III as its official state airplane. Described as Orville and ...

A precious aircraft designed by the Wright brothers towers high inside the Franklin Institute, where it has been housed for almost a century. Before going on display, the 1911 Wright Model B ...

The Wright brothers may have engineered the first plane, but that has nothing on history's largest aircraft. Here's how Kitty Hawk's finest hold up against an Airbus A380, Boeing 747, and the new ...

On December 17, 1903, the Wright brothers flew their "Flyer" four times, with their longest flight lasting 59 seconds and covering 852 feet. With these flights, they became the first to ...

Crouch: The Wrights thought of flight as something that happened ... you're not using full-scale wings but small model wings. The Wright brothers created as many as 200 of these little model ...

Orville and Wilbur Wright were inspired by Otto Lilienthal, a German glider pioneer. Though he crashed to his death in 1896, the Wrights were obsessed the technical problems involved in flight. They ...

California-based Alef Aeronautics has successfully tested its bizarre electric flying car more than a year and a half after ...

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 ...

The model Wright Flyer was constructed in 2003 ... which marked the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers' historic flight. Anderson said he was gifted a piece of the replica aircraft by ...

It’s a real Wright airplane factory ... are important for public education about the Wright brothers and the progress they made from one model to the next. Hyde insists on accurate re-creations ...

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 ...

Highlights of the exhibition included former President Theodore Roosevelt's visit, the Wright brothers' plane, and livestock shows and exhibits. In 1910, more than 350,000 people flocked to ...