A precious aircraft designed by the Wright brothers towers high inside the Franklin Institute, where it has been housed for almost a century. Before going on display, the 1911 Wright Model B ...

The Wright brothers may have engineered the first plane, but that has nothing on history's largest aircraft. Here's how Kitty Hawk's finest hold up against an Airbus A380, Boeing 747, and the new ...

With a gentle shove, Robert Plate launched the 15-foot wooden glider and its pilot, Robert Townsend, into a light breeze on a ...

Crouch: If you think about an airplane moving through the air ... you're not using full-scale wings but small model wings. The Wright brothers created as many as 200 of these little model wings ...

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — An early morning fire damaged a commercial building complex housing an historic airplane factory founded by the Wright Brothers in Ohio on Sunday, authorities said.

At the top of the plate is an element inspired by a previous plate: an illustration of the Wright Brothers’ historic plane, which made its first flight from Kitty Hawk, North Carolina ...

The fabric used to make the aircraft is 100% cotton muslin ... on 17 December 1903, the Wright Brothers made the first sustained, powered and controlled flights, marking the birth of modern ...

Relatives of the plane's original owner believe that it was stolen and acquired by the Franklin Institute without family permission. The Wright brothers 1911 Model B airplane plane at the Franklin ...

A precious aircraft designed by the Wright brothers towers high inside the Franklin ... Before going on display, the 1911 Wright Model B Flyer made 748 flights without incident, racing across ...