Wright brothers

Cultural

Orville and Wilbur Wright, American mechanics and inventors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who achieved the first sustained flight of a heavier-than-air machine — what we today call an airplane. Their flight was made at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903.

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Wright brothers

The aviation industry, quite literally, took off when the Wright brothers flew the world’s first heavier-than-air craft on a sustained, powered flight near Kitty Hawk, N.C.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026

There has been talk of a third runway in west London since not long after the Wright brothers were first airborne.

From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2025

Grover C. Bergdoll flying the plane he bought from the Wright brothers.

From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2024

"To me, this is like a Wright brothers moment," de Heer said.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 3, 2024

I had been reading about the Wright brothers.

From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos

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