The Wright brothers' first airplane flight on Dec. 17 ... In 1899, Wilbur wrote this letter to the Smithsonian Institution, requesting copies of all the past research done: "Dear Sirs: I am ...

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Partly due to Wright's legal obstructions, the US lagged behind European air forces in WWI and had to fly British and French ...

Ingenuity may allow to us relish in a moment none of us were likely alive to experience: the possibility of first flight. That’s the question that the Wright brothers perhaps pondered repeatedly ...

Ask anyone who invented the modern airplane and you’ll get a clear answer: the Wright Brothers ... According to a Smithsonian ...

Engineering the age of flight NOVA: The Wright brothers were discovering aspects ... who was the third Secretary of the Smithsonian and was experimenting during this same period, he was spending ...

The Wright brothers’ lifelong interest in flight peaked after they witnessed ... uncrewed steam-powered fixed-wing model aircraft by Smithsonian Institution Secretary Samuel Langley; and the ...

In a letter to Langley, director of the Smithsonian Institution, Wilbur wrote, "I believe that simple flight at least ... This principle, which the Wright brothers called "wing warping," was ...

Orville and Wilbur Wright were inspired by Otto Lilienthal, a German glider pioneer. Though he crashed to his death in 1896, the Wrights were obsessed the technical problems involved in flight. They ...

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 ...

The story of the Wright brothers’ groundbreaking achievements in aviation is well-documented, but their sister, Katharine Wright’s contribution often goes unnoticed | Feminism, Women's Rights ...

Malloy even signed a bill this year that discredits the Wright brothers ... Paul Jackson claims the Smithsonian historians made a suspicious deal for the Wright's plane, which they bought for ...