The invention of the airplane by Wilbur and Orville Wright is one of the great stories in American history. The Wright brothers’ invention not only solved a long-studied technical problem, but helped ...

If you look at the way in which the Wright brothers gathered data, they really weren't trying to understand precisely why a wing lifts or an airplane flies. What they were doing was gathering ...

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 ...

Ohio moved one step closer to making the Wright brothers' Wright Flyer III the official state airplane Wednesday following a ...