In 1949 the Library of Congress acquired 303 glass plate negatives developed by the Wright brothers. Some of these prints, including the iconic image above, are in the National Air and Space Museum.

Since the Wright brothers’ first flight in 1903, aviation has evolved at a breathtaking pace, shaping human history and ...

In 1903, U.S. schoolchildren are taught, the Wright brothers piloted their Wright Flyer into the air in Kitty Hawk, N.C., and soared into the history books. Brazilians hear a different story ...

Crouch is Senior Curator of the Division of Aeronautics at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., and has just published two books on the Wrights: The Wright Brothers and the ...

The invention of the airplane by Wilbur and Orville Wright is one of the great stories in American history. The Wright brothers’ invention not only solved a long-studied technical problem, but helped ...

Since childhood, the brothers had experimented with the concept of flight. They were mechanically-minded young guys who were encouraged by the achievements of others. The Wright Brothers started ...

The longest flight took only five minutes and four ... a pen-enhanced photograph of one of the Wright brothers flying one of their early gliders (see image at right), with this accompanying ...

A grandniece to the pioneering Ohio brothers, Amanda Wright Lane, testified in February that the 1905 plane was "their Tesla," and represented the beginning of a human flight plan to Mars.

Inside the College Park Aviation Museum, Herb Jones looks at the pictures of the planes, of the pilots, of his father, Herb ...

After several years of experimentation, the first flight was born in Kill Devil ... their restored hangar and home as well as the Wright Brothers Visitor Center, which houses exhibits detailing ...

There are a handful of artifacts in the Smithsonian Institution that I call “signature Smithsonian objects.” One-of-a-kind objects, intimately associated with the Smithsonian, that visitors ...