The pilot approached the runway “high and fast” before last month’s plane crash in Kill Devil Hills that killed five people, including a 6-year-old child, the National ...

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.

"The boys of the Wright family are all lacking in determination ... there three weeks later at the age of 45. After Wilbur's death, Orville sold the business for $1 million and retired.

Jansen decided it would be a shame to simply bury his late feline friend, so he drew inspiration from his pet's namesake — Orville Wright, one of the Wright Brothers, the inventors of heavier ...