Wright Flyer III has been named Ohio's official state aircraft. Here's why it's important to the Buckeye State, and aviation ...

We pay homage to the Wright Brothers every day on a global scale: every time someone hops in a plane for work or pleasure, they can thank Orville and Wilbur for the luxury. We wanted to celebrate ...

Benjamin Franklin did fly a kite with a key to discover electricity. (Not exactly.) Wilbur and Orville Wright, the legendary brothers, together invented manned mechanical flight. To deconstruct ...

Jim Preston, National Air and Space Museum Wilbur and Orville Wright didn’t care much for attention. But after publicly demonstrating their flying machine, the inventors of the airplane became ...

Among those who never knew how that turned out was Wilbur Wright, who died two years before ... reporting Wilbur’s death, Orville blamed it “on the seemingly interminable legal fight ...

Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated the name of the actress portraying Katharine Wright. She is Jessica Michnia. DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — The names of Orville and Wilbur Wright ...

Orville and Wilbur: The Story of the Wright Brothers, starring real life brothers Stacy and James Keach, is a dramatized telling of the tense time leading up to their first successful flight.

By Christine Negroni A plan underway to preserve some of the buildings where the flight pioneers Orville and Wilbur Wright built their Wright Flyers is falling apart. By Christine Negroni The ...

But their effort to name a state aircraft is flying high. Senate Bill 24, naming the 1905 Wright Flyer III by Orville and Wilbur Wright of Dayton as Ohio's state aircraft, was signed into law by Gov.