Almost as astonishing as the fact that a pair of bicycle ... Wright Brothers were publicity shy and fiercely secretive about their invention and did not invite reporters to witness their historic ...

How is it that two bicycle-shop owners from ... of their enterprise paid off for the Wright brothers on December 17, 1903, the day they ushered in the airplane age. Crouch is Senior Curator ...

Neither Lilienthal nor the Wright brothers ... simple gliding flight into long distance human flight. The achievements so far ...

“At that time, there was a lot of competition across the whole world for flight,” said ... and never flew again. The Wright brothers would then make their first public flights in Europe ...

City and community leaders hope that a new police station that will be built on West Third Street will be a second anchor for the Wright brothers ... The first airplane factory in the U.S. opened ...

The span of the arch represents the length, height and bumps that the Wright Brothers' first flight is thought to be. In preparation for the year-long celebration of flight, many schools around ...

If you flew to Outer Banks, you have the Wright Brothers to thank ... After several years of experimentation, the first flight was born in Kill Devil Hills on December 17, 1903.

Their feat was so momentous that license plates in both North Carolina ("First In Flight") and Ohio ... a bill this year that discredits the Wright brothers. Whitehead apparently flew for 1.5 ...

MANTEO, N.C. (AP) — Multiple people died after a single-engine plane crashed Saturday afternoon in a wooded area at Wright Brothers National Memorial’s First Flight Airport, the National Park ...