You won't fly cross country in a Wright Brothers plane. But their invention and discovery more than 100 years ago launched ...

Here’s how it works. The Wright brothers' first airplane flight on Dec. 17, 1903, lasted only 12 seconds, and news of the achievement appeared in just four newspapers the next morning.

After the Wright brothers developed the first powered airplane, it didn't take long for the military to want to adopt it. Here's who built the first one.

Wright Brothers National Memorial sits at 1000 North Croatan Highway, Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. The site opens daily ...

Midair refueling is pretty standard business these days, but like all the other milestones in flight history, someone had to ...