In 1903, U.S. schoolchildren are taught, the Wright brothers piloted their Wright Flyer into the air in Kitty Hawk, N.C., and soared into the history books. Brazilians hear a different story ...

It was another typical day for the Wright exhibition team. For 16 months, from June 1910 to November 1911, the team members performed at air meets across the country, uncrating their aircraft from ...

How is it that two bicycle-shop owners from Dayton, Ohio, managed to do what many others before them had tried but failed to do—invent the airplane? In this interview, Wright biographer and ...

A close-up of the 1911 glider, which Orville used in experiments at Kitty Hawk. His diary entry for October 18, 1911, reads: “Made several glides. In last one, machine turned around in spite of ...

Wilbur Wright, if I am correct ... Its highway is God's free air; and as it has only the vaulted heavens above to fence off our domain, there surely should not be any dispute about the "right ...