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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A piece of the Wright brothers' first airplane is on Mars. NASA's experimental Martian helicopter holds a small swatch of fabric from the 1903 Wright Flyer, the space ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Manufacturers such as Huffy, then operating as the Davis Sewing Machine Company, and the Wright Cycle Company made Dayton an ideal place for experimentation. The brothers returned to work refining ...

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 ...

Did you know that pieces of the original history-making Wright Brothers' "1903 Wright Flyer I" have orbited the Earth and been to moon? Now, NASA collaborated with Carillon Historical Park and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Wright brothers have made it to Mars — or at least a part of their plane has. NASA’s experimental Martian helicopter holds a small swatch of fabric from the 1903 Wright Flyer, the space agency ...

Ingenuity, the experimental Martian helicopter, will carry a small swatch of fabric from the 1903 Wright Flyer Glenn Garner is a form writer-reporter who worked heavily with PEOPLE's Movies and TV ...