and the world owes to him a great debt,” Wilbur Wright would write in September 1912. Lilienthal was a German engineer and a ...

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.

120 years ago, Orville and Wilbur Wright made the breakthrough that would allow humans to reach the heavens and beyond. They achieved what no one else had until then, the first successful flight ...

The invention of the airplane by Wilbur and Orville Wright is one of the great stories in American history. The Wright brothers’ invention not only solved a long-studied technical problem, but helped ...

In this interview, Wright biographer and aeronautics historian ... wings that carried his rather heavy models through the air. Wilbur assumed he could rely on those folks for his initial ...