The last surviving Wright brothers family member to have known Orville Wright has died, according to her family. Marianne Miller Hudec, 79, a Dayton native, died March 5 of heart failure at her ...

Orville Wright would store his patents and documents, since banks at the time didn’t have safe deposit boxes. Currently the furniture NCR bought and used for the house is stored there.

On Dec. 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright of Dayton conducted the first successful manned powered-airplane flights near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, using their experimental craft, the Wright Flyer.

Lane was born in 1953, five years after Orville died. She listened to the family stories, especially those of her great-aunt Ivonette Wright Miller, who knew the brothers well and in 1911 was one ...

On Dec. 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright conducted the first successful manned, powered airplane flights near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

KILL DEVIL HILLS, N.C. — It was 117 years ago Thursday that Wilbur and Orville Wright etched their names in history and embarked on the first flight in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.