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 ...

Page received a patent for a flying machine before the Wright brothers and prior to their first powered, sustained and controlled airplane flight has been circulating online for years. According ...

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 ...

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 ...

An ad promoting the exhibition noted C.P. Rodgers “flew the 14 miles between Urban and Springfield on July 4th,” adding that his plane was one of the new model Wright Brothers biplanes and ...

Sunday 17 December, the First Flight Society will commemorate 120th anniversary of their accomplishment at the Wright Brothers National Memorial in North Carolina. Wright Brothers Day: 120th ...

At the top of the plate is an element inspired by a previous plate: an illustration of the Wright Brothers’ historic plane, which made its first flight from Kitty Hawk, North Carolina ...

On this site, read about the history of these contraptions, learn to build your own model, and discover ... look at the history of the Wright brothers' quest for flight. Read historical time ...

A precious aircraft designed by the Wright brothers towers high inside the Franklin ... Before going on display, the 1911 Wright Model B Flyer made 748 flights without incident, racing across ...