The 112th anniversary of the day the Wright Brothers made the world’s first sustained, powered flight in an airplane will be celebrated outside the San Diego Air & Space Museum on Wednesday, when ...

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

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) — Faulty welding caused engine failure that led to the 2011 crash of a Wright Brothers biplane replica that killed two volunteer pilots, federal investigators said in a report ...

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio — A Wright B Flyer replica was forced to make an emergency landing Thursday afternoon when its engine caught fire, the 88th Air Base Wing said. The replica was ...

Every year on Dec. 17, the San Diego Air & Space Museum celebrates the anniversary of the Wright Brothers’ first powered flight. But things didn’t go as planned this year.

Happy Wright Brothers Day, Dayton! Exactly 122 years ago, on Dec. 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright made history with the ...

WASHINGTON - The Wright Flyer, the world's first successful engine-powered airplane, has come down to earth. After years on display hanging from the ceiling of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space ...

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