Jan. 1 marks the 112th anniversary of the first commercial airline flight. It happened on a short jaunt from St. Petersburg ...
PETRÓPOLIS, Brazil — Who invented the airplane? Questions don’t get much simpler. But in Brazil and the United States, the answer you’ll get isn’t likely to be the same. In 1903, U.S. schoolchildren ...
On December 17, 1903, Orville Wright made the first airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The flight was short and brief. It covered 120 feet and lasted only 12 seconds. Later that same day ...
The year was 1916, just 12½ years after the Wright brothers had their first successful flight at Kitty Hawk. World War I was underway in Europe, and the U.S. would join the fray the following year.
It's not every day aviation history is made, but June 2025 marked a real milestone for New York and the world of electric flight. For the first time, a passenger-carrying electric airplane landed at ...
Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Blériot Type XI was designed primarily by Raymond Saulnier, but it was a natural evolution from earlier Blériot ...
Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Fred Wiseman, a successful automobile racing driver from Santa Rosa, California, began construction of an airplane in ...