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

Since there were no internal combustion engines available that fit the specialized needs of an aircraft, the Wright brothers made one of their own. With the help of machinist Charlie Taylor they ...

Unlike the brothers’ first Flyer ... the Flyer III was a steerable craft that became the blueprint for the emerging aircraft industry. “The 1905 Wright Flyer III is the world’s first ...

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 ...

“There is no doubt,” said Marion Weckerle, the aircraft collections manager at France’s Air and Space Museum, “that the Wright brothers flew before Santos Dumont.” On a recent overcast ...

There are only two guys who have built more Wright brothers’ airplanes than Ken Hyde and ... He figured he could simply get some plans from a museum and get to work, but he quickly discovered ...

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 ...

Described as Orville and Wilbur Wright's crowning achievement, the world's first practical fixed-wing aircraft made its seminal sustained flight in an Ohio cow pasture called Huffman Prairie, outside ...

The Dayton-made Wright Flyer III now just needs governor approval to become the official state airplane of Ohio, following Wednesday's 85-0 House vote on Senate Bill 24. The Flyer III, designed and ...