Today in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, I’m at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, to reenact the first flight of the world’s very first airplane, the 1903 Wright Flyer. At first glance, the boxy ...

Practically prehistoric compared to modern aircraft, the Wright Flyer was powered by a 12-horsepower (9 kilowatts) gasoline engine. This engine turned a pair of push wooden propellers hand-carved ...

The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur Wright, made this incredible discovery of inventing and flying the first successful airplane. They flew the Wright Flyer on December 17, 1903.

The U.S. government finally agreed to take their airplane seriously, and the Wright brothers went on to design the first military planes ever built. The Wrights continued to live in Dayton.