The automatic pilot (‘autopilot’) has to be one of aviation’s finest technological inventions. Yet, it is also one of the ...

In one of the world's earliest flights, a propeller of the Wright Flyer broke and fell to the ground on September 17, 1908.

Brazilians hear a different story: that the true inventor ... since the Wright Brothers had been toiling in relative obscurity, French aviators heralded Santos Dumont’s flight as the world ...

Described as Orville and Wilbur Wright's crowning achievement, the world's first practical fixed-wing aircraft made its ...

Spurred by scientific curiosity, technological advancements, and a desire to conquer the skies, inventors across the planet ... the feasibility of heavier-than-air flight. Eventually, the Wright ...

Thaddeus Lowe, who once worked for President Lincoln doing aerial reconnaissance work, eventually came to Pasadena to ...

A 100 years of history, trivia and anecdotes from the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata ...

I was taught it was the Wright brothers. What gives ... there were dozens of claims about and by other inventors of having achieved flight and they are all, including Brodbeck’s, discredited ...

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.

With decades of experience navigating the uncharted data center landscape, Herb Villa urges the industry to reassess, ...

Almost as soon as the Wright brothers cracked the code on the ancient dream of human flight, aero fever encircled the globe (well before the airplanes themselves could do so). Our new Early Flight ...