The story of the first powered flight, and how a fragile aircraft in 1903 changed commerce, warfare, and human movement ...

Wilbur and Orville Wright had been experimenting with powered flight since 1899. In December of 1903, they began tests at ...

Manufacturers such as Huffy, then operating as the Davis Sewing Machine Company, and the Wright Cycle Company made Dayton an ...

The first successful flight took off from North Carolina on December 17, 1903, when the Wright brothers developed the Wright ...

The Wright Brothers National Memorial will host an event on Dec. 17 at 8:30 a.m. to celebrate the 122nd anniversary of the Wright Brothers’ first flight. The ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - December 17, 1903, human flight became reality. Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright successfully flew the world’s first powered, controlled ...

Pilots should remember and celebrate the aviation legacy of December 17 because of the Wright brothers, DC-3, and EAA.

AP Photo/Library of Congress, John T. Daniels Orville Wright, lying at the controls on the lower wing, pilots the Wright ...

In this image from Dec. 17, 1903, Orville Wright makes the first powered, controlled flight on Earth as his brother Wilbur looks on. Orville Wright covered 120 feet in 12 seconds during the first ...

Every year on Dec. 17, the San Diego Air & Space Museum celebrates the anniversary of the Wright Brothers’ first powered flight. But things didn’t go as planned this year.

Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first successful flight in history of a self-propelled, heavier-than-air aircraft on ...

The history of aviation is wild. The world went from the first powered flight in 1903 to the Moon just 66 years later. We can now travel (almost) anywhere we wish at enormous speeds and with ...