A precious aircraft designed by the Wright brothers towers high inside the Franklin Institute, where it has been housed for almost a century. Before going on display, the 1911 Wright Model B ...

Crouch: The Wrights thought of flight as something that happened ... you're not using full-scale wings but small model wings. The Wright brothers created as many as 200 of these little model ...

Sunday 17 December, the First Flight Society will commemorate 120th anniversary of their accomplishment at the Wright Brothers National Memorial in North Carolina. Wright Brothers Day: 120th ...

An ad promoting the exhibition noted C.P. Rodgers “flew the 14 miles between Urban and Springfield on July 4th,” adding that his plane was one of the new model Wright Brothers biplanes and ...

John Montgomery sits at the controls of his 1903-04 bamboo tandem wing model, with his feet ... which they argue benefited the Wright brothers experiments with plane construction, and detail ...

On this site, read about the history of these contraptions, learn to build your own model, and discover ... look at the history of the Wright brothers' quest for flight. Read historical time ...

The Wright brothers may have engineered the first plane, but that has nothing on history's largest aircraft. Here's how Kitty Hawk's finest hold up against an Airbus A380, Boeing 747, and the new ...

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — An early morning fire damaged a commercial building complex housing an historic airplane factory founded by the Wright Brothers in Ohio on Sunday, authorities said.

At the top of the plate is an element inspired by a previous plate: an illustration of the Wright Brothers’ historic plane, which made its first flight from Kitty Hawk, North Carolina ...