Manufacturers such as Huffy, then operating as the Davis Sewing Machine Company, and the Wright Cycle Company made Dayton an ideal place for experimentation. The brothers returned to work refining ...

The Spirit of Flight Foundation Museum marks the 122nd anniversary of the Wright Brothers' first flight with a new sandstone ...

The Wright brothers' real breakthrough wasn't getting airborne, but proving that flight could be controlled, repeated, and trusted.

Wright Brothers flew into history with the first flight. History was also made on Wednesday, as students and graduates of First Flight High School's Aviation Program unveiled the aircraft they built ...

Ohio lawmakers are trying to reel in a state fish after failing to land the walleye last year. But their effort to name a state aircraft is flying high. Senate Bill 24, naming the 1905 Wright Flyer ...

For thousands of years, humans looked up at birds and wondered what it would feel like to leave the ground. Myths spoke of flying chariots and winged heroes, bu ...

Ohio has adopted the 1905 Wright Flyer III as its official state airplane. Described as Orville and Wilbur Wright's crowning achievement, the world's first practical fixed-wing aircraft made its ...

The 122th anniversary of the day the Wright Brothers made the world’s first sustained, powered flight in an airplane will be celebrated outside the San Diego Air & Space Museum on Wednesday, when ...

The weather today in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, is mild and cloudy. But it was quite different on a very historic day 122 years ago. On December 17 in 1903, the skies ...

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — An early morning fire damaged a commercial building complex housing a former airplane factory founded by the Wright Brothers in Ohio on Sunday, authorities said. Dayton fire crews ...

The Wright brothers have made it to Mars — or at least a part of their plane has. NASA’s experimental Martian helicopter holds a small swatch of fabric from the 1903 Wright Flyer, the space agency ...