When the Wright brothers finally succeeded in getting their flyer airborne, many didn’t believe they had really done it.

Wilbur Wright was born on April 16, 1867, Millville, Indiana and Orville Wright was born on August 19, 1871, Dayton, Ohio.

On December 17, 1903, the Wright brothers flew their "Flyer" four times, with their longest flight lasting 59 seconds and covering 852 feet. With these flights, they became the first to ...

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 ...

Orville and Wilbur Wright were inspired by Otto Lilienthal, a German glider pioneer. Though he crashed to his death in 1896, the Wrights were obsessed the technical problems involved in flight. They ...

They had a propeller the performance of which they could calculate. Engineering the age of flight NOVA: The Wright brothers were discovering aspects of flight that no one had known before.

Since childhood, the brothers had experimented with the concept of flight. They were mechanically-minded young guys who were encouraged by the achievements of others. The Wright Brothers started ...