Orville was the born engineer, Wilbur the visionary. The brothers' partnership started after a hockey accident seriously injured 18-year-old Wilbur, leaving him in a state of depression for nearly two ...

Dayton filmmaker Allen Farst's Wright brothers feature film The Flying Machine gains momentum with Delta Air Lines joining as ...

The Wright brothers made history on December 17, 1903, with the world's first successful powered airplane flight, which paved the way for modern aviation and space exploration.

Today, Wilbur and Orville Wright are as synonymous with the first to achieve powered flight as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are with the first to walk on the moon. But it wasn’t always so. In a four ...

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 ...

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 ...

Save A Dayton filmmaker believes his goal of creating the first feature-length film about Dayton’s most famous brothers is gaining traction. Allen Farst said he has landed Delta Airlines as a ...

Orville and Wilbur Wright's original 1903 Flyer made history. But it took them another two years, among crashes and technical glitches, to create the first truly practical airplane. Orville Wright ...

On Dec. 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk, N.C., with their first powered aircraft. The Wright brothers had invented the first successful airplane. They ...