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.

In 1949 the Library of Congress acquired 303 glass plate negatives developed by the Wright brothers ... the brothers honed their camera skills as they documented their flight research.

Most of us were taught in middle school that the Wright Brothers flew the first plane in 1903 in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

Because the Wright brothers solved the problem of sustained ... Curious to see how the Cincinnati newspapers covered the first flight, I delved into the archives. The Enquirer was one of the ...

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

McMahon, made a passionate case for why the Wright brothers deserved to be acknowledged as the first to achieve powered flight. His unique account included exclusive interviews with Orville Wright ...

They were the first to demonstrate sustained flight of a heavier-than-air machine under complete control of the pilot. December 17 is nationally recognized as Wright Brothers Day. The brothers ...

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 ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — History was made on this day 121 years ago when the Wright Brothers ran the first powered flight in human history. On the anniversary of the historic flight, the San ...

MANTEO, N.C. — Multiple people died after a single-engine plane crashed Saturday afternoon in a wooded area at Wright Brothers National Memorial’s First Flight Airport, the National Park ...