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Apollo Lunar module

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

Jack Finney

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

From left to right Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright chat with Wright Exhibition Team pilot Walter Brookins at Indianapolis Indiana June 1910

Moments and Milestones: Mile-High Man

July 2010 | By George C. Larson, Member, NAA

Wright brothers

In the Museum: A Wright Relic Surfaces

March 2010 | By Larry E. Tise

Among the locals helping the Wrights were Tom Beacham (second from right) with young son John and his dog Bounce.

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

A historically accurate reproduction of the Wright Model B, built by the Wright Experience, is on display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.

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

Passenger Thomas Selfridge (left) and Orville Wright prepare to take off at Fort Myer, Virginia on September 17, 1908. They crashed soon after, and Selfridge became the first air fatality.

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

By 1909, they were famous; 7 Hawthorne Street, a mecca for aspiring airmen.

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 Original

How the 1903 Flyer got where it is today.
March 2003 | By Peter L. Jakab

The 1903 Wright Flyer

Find out why the world's first controllable airplane was a bear to control.
March 2003 | By Phaedra Hise

In 1902 the brothers took turns: When Orville flew, Wilbur launched, aided by friend Bill Tate (at right).

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

Befitting a Paris audience, Alberto Santos-Dumont cut a dandy figure in the pilot basket of his 14-bis.

10 Milestone Flights

You wouldn't have wanted to be along on most of them.
March 2003 | By Perry Turner

Occupying the exalted position reserved for research aircraft, Ken Hyde’s 1902 glider replica undergoes tests in a wind tunnel at NASA’s Langley center in Virginia.

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

Moments & Milestones: Airfairs

November 2002 | By Stuart Nixon

Moments & Milestones: Finding the Wright Spot

January 2002 | By Stuart Nixon

Alexander Graham Bell was infatuated with the tetrahedral, or four-sided, cell, but only one of his tetrahedral kites flew.

What Were They Thinking?

The wonderful, unworkable world of airplane design in the years before the Wright brothers.
March 2001 | By Phil Scott


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