After a three-year absence, Wright at Home returns, with visitors once again invited to an open house at Hawthorn Hill in Dayton, Ohio, Orville Wright’s family mansion.
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Wing fabric from original Wright Flyer donated to Dayton museum
Amanda Wright-Lane and Stephen Wright, the Wright brothers’ great grandniece and nephew, have donated the family’s largest five foot wide sections of the muslin that covered the lower left wing of the 1903 Wright Flyer to Carillon Historical Park.
Replica of Wright Brothers wind tunnel goes on display at Arizona museum
An operating replica of the Wright Brothers’ wind tunnel was Gibson Gallares’ Eagle Scout project. Now that’s it’s complete, he has donated it to Airbase Arizona Flying Museum in Mesa.
Did two Wrights make it wrong?
An eagle-eyed reader caught an error from our resident historian about a photo of the Wright brothers.
Museum to run exact replica of Wright brothers engine on 117th anniversary of flight
The running of the Wright Brothers’ engine on Dec. 17 will be exactly 117 years to the day the Wrights made the first powered flight in history.
Ideas that Changed the World: The Airplane
“The airplane is the machine that gave us our greatest superpower – the ability to fly.”
Video: Flying to the Wright Brothers National Memorial
A new video chronicles a flight to the Wright Brothers National Memorial in North Carolina.
Dayton History’s National Park Service sites remain open during shutdown
The Wright Brothers National Museum in Dayton, as well as Orville Wright’s mansion, remain open during the government shutdown.
December 17 started it all
Historians have long pegged December 17, 1903, as a seminal turning point in the history of the world, which is why many aircraft made their first flights on the anniversary of the first flight.