Wilbur and Orville Wright
What’s Real, and What’s Not?
At the National Air and Space Museum, some artifacts are more genuine than others.
June 2013 |
By Rebecca Maksel
Stealing the Wright Flyer
Back in 1951, sci-fi author Jack Finney had a few questions for the Smithsonian, like: How exactly would someone break in?
March 24, 2011 |
By Rebecca Maksel
Glamour Boy
The day Claude Grahame-White thrilled the crowd at the Boston-Harvard meet.
September 08, 2010 |
By Gavin Mortimer
Present at Creation
From five witnesses came a family tradition to honor the moment the airplane was born.
January 2009 |
By Tom Crouch
1908: The Year the Airplane Went Public
Five years after Kitty Hawk, the Wrights finally showed the world their invention.
August 29, 2008 |
By Tom D. Crouch
Premier Performer
For their first airshows, the Wright exhibition team relied on the Model B.
March 19, 2008 |
By Paul Glenshaw
A & S Interview: Leonard Bruno
The Library of Congress manuscript specialist looks after some of aviation's most historic documents.
July 2007 |
By Pat Trenner
Under the Hood of a Wright Flyer
Aviation historians and restorers get a rare peek at a 98-year-old engine.
November 2006 |
By Linda Shiner
Meeting Wilbur and Orville
To understand the brothers, one historian found that what you know is less important than who you know.
March 2003 |
By Tom D. Crouch
The 1903 Wright Flyer
Find out why the world's first controllable airplane was a bear to control.
March 2003 |
By Phaedra Hise
I Have Today Seen Wilbur Wright and his Great White Bird
The airplane debuted to rave reviews.
March 2003 |
By Mary Collins
Aviation's Birth Certificate
When a private collection of Wright Company papers went public, we discovered that many of our notions about the Wrights' business practices were wrong.
March 2003 |
By Douglas Gantenbein
10 Milestone Flights
You wouldn't have wanted to be along on most of them.
March 2003 |
By Perry Turner
In Search of the Real Wright Flyer
Building a replica of the first airplane requires a certain resourcefulness. Anybody got any horsehide glue?
January 2003 |
By Phaedra Hise
What Were They Thinking?
The wonderful, unworkable world of airplane design in the years before the Wright brothers.
March 2001 |
By Phil Scott
