Manufacturers such as Huffy, then operating as the Davis Sewing Machine Company, and the Wright Cycle Company made Dayton an ...

The story of the first powered flight, and how a fragile aircraft in 1903 changed commerce, warfare, and human movement ...

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 ...

Wilbur and Orville Wright had been experimenting with powered flight since 1899. In December of 1903, they began tests at ...

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On December 19, 1910, Japan entered the age of powered flight when Captain Yoshitoshi Tokugawa flew a Farman III biplane at ...

The DC-3 Society, an organization dedicated to protecting and honoring the legacy of the airplane nicknamed the “Gooney Bird, ...

Longest glider flight, 8 years after their first powered flight. Oct. 24, 2011 — -- "For some years," wrote Wilbur Wright in 1900, "I have been afflicted with the belief that flight is possible ...

On Nov. 25, 1970, an experimental aircraft called the Northrop M2-F3 made its first powered flight. The M2-F3 was a heavyweight lifting body. A lifting body is an airplane that produces most of the ...

AP Photo/Library of Congress, John T. Daniels Orville Wright, lying at the controls on the lower wing, pilots the Wright ...

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