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

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.

In 1949 the Library of Congress acquired 303 glass plate negatives developed by the Wright brothers ... every detail of the flight of the world’s first airplane. The craft rode down the 60 ...

The possibility that someone may have flown a powered airplane before the Wright brothers is back in the news. Over the years a number of candidates have been suggested for first-flight honors.

Using a French Voisin aircraft with a 50-horsepower engine, the eccentric aristocrat Alberto Braniff made a flight that traveled further than the Wright Brothers' first plane seven years earlier.

Subaru has indeed made airplanes — and still does. The story starts just 14 years after the Wright Brothers' first flight in 1903 — one of the top moments in aviation history — when engineer ...

We all know the moment when dinner party or barbecue conversation drifts into discussions of what everyone does for a living, ...

With the vision of lead designer Stefan Klein behind it, the AirCar not only addresses the pitfalls of every failed flying ...

The Trump administration's plans to slash science funding could end up liberating researchers from the corrupting influence ...

Ohio's debut of its new license plate failed to take off — because a banner depicted on the plate was attached to the wrong end of the Wright Brothers' historic first plane, the Wright Flyer.