The story of the first powered flight, and how a fragile aircraft in 1903 changed commerce, warfare, and human movement ...

Manufacturers such as Huffy, then operating as the Davis Sewing Machine Company, and the Wright Cycle Company made Dayton an ...

In this image from Dec. 17, 1903, Orville Wright makes the first powered, controlled flight on Earth as his brother Wilbur looks on. Orville Wright covered 120 feet in 12 seconds during the first ...

The first successful flight took off from North Carolina on December 17, 1903, when the Wright brothers developed the Wright ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - December 17, 1903, human flight became reality. Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright successfully flew the world’s first powered, controlled ...

For thousands of years, humans looked up at birds and wondered what it would feel like to leave the ground. Myths spoke of ...

Over 120 years ago, in 1902, the Wright Brothers performed the first controlled, sustained, powered flight at Kitty Hawk, ...

Engineers say they "did not intentionally plan such a stressful flight." NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, the first powered and controlled aircraft to take flight on another planet, survived a "stressful" ...