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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

Sure, drones are the latest incarnation of that, but there have been RC planes, kites, and all sorts of flying toys and gizmos even before manned flight ... Even the Wright brothers used paper ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The aircraft demonstrates the incredible strides that have taken place in aviation technology,” said Willis. The 1905 Wright Flyer III is on display at the Wright Brothers Aviation Center at ...

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 ...