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For information on the dispute between the Smithsonian and the Wright Brothers that delayed donation of the aircraft to the National Museum, see Tom Crouch, "Capable of Flight: The Feud between the ...

Early last year, freelance aviation historian John Brown sat in the office of the curator of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, home of the 1903 Wright Flyer, the plane widely considered ...

The 1903 Wright Flyer, the aircraft that ushered in the age of flight, will be lowered from the ceiling this fall and displayed at eye level, officials announced yesterday. This will be the first time ...

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 ...

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 ...

A precious aircraft designed by the Wright brothers towers high inside the Franklin Institute, a Philadelphia science museum, where it has been housed for almost a century. Before going on display, ...

The North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh is making a change to their Wright Brothers exhibit. They're swapping out their 1903 Flyer Replica -- for a 1902 Glider Replica. Related: First In ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — The historic 1905 Wright Flyer III is being recognized on the state level with a new designation. Gov. Mike DeWine visited Carillon Park in Dayton Friday to sign off on Senate ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ASHEBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — At the beginning of ...

Petrópolis, Brazil — Who invented the airplane? Questions don’t get much simpler. But in Brazil and the United States, the answer you’ll get isn’t likely to be the same. In 1903, U.S. schoolchildren ...