How is it that two bicycle-shop owners from Dayton, Ohio, managed to do what many others before them had tried but failed to do—invent the airplane? In this interview, Wright biographer and ...

Almost as astonishing as the fact that a pair of bicycle shop owners invented the airplane is the fact that the first accurate reporting about some of their earliest powered flights appeared not in ...

When it was time for their first flight, Wilbur and Orville Wright had to wing it (pun intended). Everything they experienced, from takeoff to touchdown, was uncharted territory. Fortunately, if ...