The Spirit of Flight Foundation Museum marks the 122nd anniversary of the Wright Brothers' first flight with a new sandstone ...

122 years ago, the era of powered flight began when Orville and Wilbur Wright took their airplane into the air for the first time. KPBS reporter John Carroll says an event at the San Diego Air and ...

On December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright achieved the first powered, sustained, and controlled flight of a heavier-than-air aircraft with the Wright Flyer. After their final and longest flight, ...

December 17 is a significant date in aviation history, most notably marking the Wright brothers' first successful powered flight in 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, a pivotal moment that launched ...

What Amos Root saw -- Wilbur and Orville -- Art of flying -- Wind and sand -- Back to the drawing board -- Horsepower and propellers -- First practical airplane -- Fliers or liars? -- conquering ...

After a mysterious and lengthy disappearance, the historic patent documents for the Wright Brothers' groundbreaking flying machine have finally resurfaced and are now at home in the National Archives ...

Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. You may have noticed we’ve been taking a bit of a break from our usual Monday news roundup to ...

KILL DEVIL HILLS, N.C. (WITN) - High atop a hill in Kill Devil Hills, a monument rises, commemorating the extraordinary feat that unfolded on the rail below on a cold and windy December morning 122 ...