History Wing

The Wright Story is a biography of Wilbur and Orville Wright, from Wilbur's birth in 1867 to Orville's death in 1948. Along with their story, we've included many of their own writings, eyewitness accounts, and the remembrances of the people who knew them. An Unusual Childhood Career Choices Inventing the Airplane Showing the World The Airplane Business A Long Twilight	Click on a photo to enlarge it. Wilbur and Orville Wright getting the Flyer 2 ready to fly at Huffman Prairie, near Dayton, Ohio in 1904.
A History of the Airplane traces the history of the fixed-wing aircraft, from its conception in 1799 to the first truly stable aircraft that emerged just before the beginning of World War I. The Century Before The Century After Doers and Dreamers Wannabees	A scene from the Rheims "Aviation Week" of 1909, the first major air show, with an impressive 38 planes on display. (Only 23 of them got off the ground, but it was still impressive.)
Aviations's Attic collects some of the more offbeat and fascinating stories in pioneer aviation, mostly told by people who were eyewitnesses to aviation history. With the Wright Brothers in Dayton The Lost Flights of the Wright Brothers The 1909 Wright Glider
Just the Facts provides a quick and easy way to look up specific information on the Wright Brothers and early aviation history. The Wright Family Kites and Gliders Wright Airplanes Engines and Propellers Wright Trivia Back to the top	Three-view engineering drawing of the Wright Model B, the first airplane to be mass- produced in 1910.