Two brothers running a bicycle shop seem an unlikely pair to take on the challenge of building a flying machine. How did they get into it? Crouch: At the end of the 19th century, Wilbur Wright was ...

Wilbur and Orville Wright built their first experimental airplanes in the back of their bicycle shop at 1127 W ... visited the Wright brothers factory and predicted the general use of the airplane ...

"The boys of the Wright family are all lacking in determination ... With the help of a mechanic in the bike shop, the brothers built a small engine. Designing the propeller was harder, but here ...

The owner of a longtime musical instrument store has died. Gerald “Jerry” Hauer, 91, of Centerville, died Oct. 30, according ...

The brothers had assumed ... at their bicycle shop in Dayton. He had given them enthusiastic help in building their engine. ORVILLE WRIGHT TO CHARLES TAYLOR KITTY HAWK, November 3, 1903 We thought ...

In addition, his obit said he invested hundreds of hours to save the Wright Brothers’ first bicycle shop, the Neon and Canal districts, the Save NCR’s Building 26 campaign, and many other preservation ...

To celebrate Veterans Day, entrance fees will be waived at Wright Brothers National Memorial, and other fee-collecting parks ...

And while government-funded Samuel Langley was catapulting the Aerodrome into the Potomac River, the Wright Brothers were doing the necessarily prerequisite propeller research in a bike shop that ...

At McConnell AFB in Wichita, Kansas, maintenance of KC-135 and KC-46 refueling aircraft is taken very seriously. Meet the two ...

The Wright Brothers National Memorial is a must-see ... there are tons of activities to enjoy. You can hike, bike, or even ...

They still had to look after their bicycle business and earn a living ... So he offered to try to get Andrew Carnegie to supply funds. WILBUR WRIGHT TO OCTAVE CHANUTE December 23,1901 As to ...