Keyword Wright Brothers

The story of the Wright Brothers and their efforts to invent, build, and fly the world's first successful motor-operated airplane.

Officially, the Wright Brothers flew first in 1903. But the Australian aviation expert John Brown argues that German born Gustave Whitehead flew in...

A Wright Brothers biopic, focusing on how the two bicycle mechanics headed to the windy hills of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in pursuit of their...

On August 8, 1908, at a racetrack outside Paris, Wilbur Wright executed what was, for him, a routine flight: a smooth take-off banking into a couple...