Airliners are debuting swankier first-class options so that more travelers can fly in the lap of luxury. The new designs are the last changes for the aviation industry more than 100 years after a set ...

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 ...

John J. Montgomery sits at the controls of his 1911 monoplane glider, in which he flew about 50 times in Evergreen Valley in San Jose. Montgomery, a native of Sutter County, is a key California ...

Enter the Wrights -- Prophets with some honor -- Teachers and first lessons -- Hitting a wall -- "We now hold all the records!" -- Ambiguous success -- Return to Dayton -- Into the world -- Noon into ...

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 ...