Today our Nation celebrates the heroic moment America took to the skies when Orville and Wilbur Wright launched the first controlled, machine-powered aircraft on December 17, 1903. This Wright ...

Manufacturers such as Huffy, then operating as the Davis Sewing Machine Company, and the Wright Cycle Company made Dayton an ideal place for experimentation. The brothers returned to work refining ...

Happy Wright Brothers Day, Dayton! Exactly 122 years ago, on Dec. 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright made history with the first ...

Wright brothers made the first successful flight in history. Down in North Carolina’s Outer Banks near Kitty Hawk, Orville and Wilbur Wright piloted a gas-powered, propeller-driven biplane. The plane ...

Orville and Wilbur Wright tested their flying machine that would later become the modern airplane at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina. Orville piloted the first flight and it lasted 12 seconds, traveling ...

December 17 is a significant date in aviation history, most notably marking the Wright brothers' first successful powered flight in 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, a pivotal moment that launched ...

KILL DEVIL HILLS, N.C. (WITN) - High atop a hill in Kill Devil Hills, a monument rises, commemorating the extraordinary feat that unfolded on the rail below on a cold and windy December morning 122 ...

Humanity has sent into space everything from lightsabers and Tesla Roadsters to golden records and entire digital genetic ...