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DAYTON — 118 years after Orville and Wilbur Wright’s historic flights in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Wright family members are donating some of the last remaining wing coverings from the original ...

It’s been said that if man were meant to fly, he’d have been born with wings... but it’s been well over a century since Dayton’s own Orville & Wilbur Wright took that notion, strapped a 4-cylinder ...

The N.C. Transportation Museum is home to a full-size replica Wright Flyer. Museum educator Tyler Trahan tells us how the 1903 flight by the Wright Brothers differed from others who had tried to make ...

In 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright conducted the first successful sustained and controlled flight of a heavier-than-air contraption. We came to know it as the Flyer, or Kitty Hawk, and for all intents ...

Orville and Wilbur Wright flew their 1903 Wright Flyer 120 feet in the air more than a century ago today. In 1963, a House Joint Resolution passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate ...

Since the Wright brothers' first flight in 1903, aviation has evolved at a breathtaking pace, shaping human history and technology. From pioneering innovations to game-changing milestones, these ...

Ken Kellett, the builder of the full-scale reproduction 1903 Wright Flyer, prepares the structure for its move from the lobby to a new exhibit hall at the N.C. Museum of History in Raleigh, North ...