What's the straight dope on the world's first powered flight? Sources on the 'Net claim people from New Zealand, Scotland, and France flew earlier than the Wrights, and one claims John Stringfellow ...

On December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright achieved the first powered, sustained, and controlled flight of a heavier-than-air aircraft with the Wright Flyer. After their final and longest flight, ...

On Nov. 25, 1970, an experimental aircraft called the Northrop M2-F3 made its first powered flight. The M2-F3 was a heavyweight lifting body. A lifting body is an airplane that produces most of the ...

122 years ago, the era of powered flight began when Orville and Wilbur Wright took their airplane into the air for the first time. KPBS reporter John Carroll says an event at the San Diego Air and ...

The history of aviation is wild. The world went from the first powered flight in 1903 to the Moon just 66 years later. We can now travel (almost) anywhere we wish at enormous speeds and with ...