Manufacturers such as Huffy, then operating as the Davis Sewing Machine Company, and the Wright Cycle Company made Dayton an ideal place for experimentation. The brothers returned to work refining ...
On December 17, 1903, near the windy dunes of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, history was made that would forever change how we look at the world and move about it. On that fateful morning, Orville and ...
Jan. 1 marks the 112th anniversary of the first commercial airline flight. It happened on a short jaunt from St. Petersburg ...
Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first successful flight in history of a self-propelled, heavier-than-air aircraft on ...
The weather today in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, is mild and cloudy. But it was quite different on a very historic day 122 years ago. On December 17 in 1903, the skies ...
Pilots should remember and celebrate the aviation legacy of December 17 because of the Wright brothers, DC-3, and EAA.
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The first flight on December 17, 1903 ...
The US Code states that Wright Brothers Day commemorates the first successful flights in a heavier-than-air, mechanically propelled aeroplane. Orville and Wilbu ...
One hundred twenty-two years ago, in 1902, the Wright Brothers made history by performing the first controlled, sustained, ...