Complete Guide to Wright Brothers National Memorial in North Carolina, including things to do, history, nearby lodging a ...

Selected by David Rooney, the author, most recently, of “The Big Hop: The First Non-stop Flight Across the Atlantic Ocean and ...

LARRY ORVILLE FULFER passed away peacefully on May 29, 2025. He was preceded in death by his parents, Millie (Wright) and Henry Fulfer; and his sisters, Angie Brawley, Sadie Wright, Henry Ella ...

Wilbur died from typhoid fever in 1912. Orville was the elder statesman of aviation until his death in 1948. (This story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy.) ...

THE death on January 30 Of Orville Wright marks the passing of the second of the great co-pioneers of mechanical flight (Wilbur Wright died in 1912), and of the man who actually made the first ...

Lung congestion developed. Late one night, under an oxygen tent in the Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, death came to Orville Wright, begetter of an age.

That qualifier is also important because it’s what distinguishes Montgomery from the Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, who are credited with the first powered, controlled flight (in Kitty ...

On Dec. 17, 1903, Orville Wright made history's first sustained airplane flight, lasting 12 seconds and covering 120 feet near Kitty Hawk, N.C. His brother Wilbur flew 852 feet later that day.

After previously trusting the museum’s account, members of the Bergdoll family now believe that the plane was stolen and acquired by the Franklin Institute without Bergdoll’s permission.

A precious aircraft designed by the Wright brothers towers high inside the Franklin Institute, where it has been housed for almost a century. Before going on display, the 1911 Wright Model B airplane ...

But regardless, I felt a historical tug from Orville Wright and Gen. Tokugawa, drawn back into the daring days of early flight by an arboreal anniversary gift.