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 ...
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 ...
With a gentle shove, Robert Plate launched the 15-foot wooden glider and its pilot, Robert Townsend, into a light breeze on a ...
Charles F. Page received a patent for his contraption before the Wright brothers' historic flight, but the siblings filed for their patent first.