The world’s first military aircraft, designed and manufactured by the Wright brothers, was previously suspended high-up near the gallery’s ceiling. Now, the 37-foot-long by 30-foot-wide ...

At the time the army bought the Wright Military Flyer, though, there really were no aviation experts with the practical experience that the brothers had. This new aircraft, then, was used to train ...

Still, the plane became a weapon almost immediately. In 1908, the Wright brothers launched the Wright Military Flyer, America’s first military warplane. During one of the early flights ...

You may have noticed that some WWI fighter planes had three wings, but why was this? Did the extra wings help make the ...

In the shadow of the world's first practical airplane, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine recently celebrated with Wright family members legislation that makes the 1905 Wright Flyer the official state airplane.

Bergdoll flying the plane he bought from the Wright brothers. It is now on exhibit ... Image When Bergdoll escaped from his military escort in 1920, he became the subject of a nationwide hunt.

Military aircraft also has a history dating back to the Wright brothers when the U.S. Army bought its first aircraft, a 1909 Wright Military Flyer. The importance of aircraft to a modern military ...

Though the Wright brothers had made history, their airplane was essentially only ... working to earn a military contract. But in 1908, with Army observer Thomas E. Selfridge as a passenger ...

Airliners are debuting swankier first-class options so that more travelers can fly in the lap of luxury. The new designs are the last changes for the aviation industry more than 100 years after a ...

The five people killed aboard a single-engine plane that crashed and caught fire at Wright Brothers National Memorial’s First Flight Airport in North Carolina over the weekend have been ...

“There is no doubt,” said Marion Weckerle, the aircraft collections manager at France’s Air and Space Museum, “that the Wright brothers flew before Santos Dumont.” On a recent overcast ...