While the Wright brothers are widely recognized as the fathers of flight, Brazilians believe the true inventor of the ...
Enter the Wrights -- Prophets with some honor -- Teachers and first lessons -- Hitting a wall -- "We now hold all the records!" -- Ambiguous success -- Return to Dayton -- Into the world -- Noon into ...
John J. Montgomery sits at the controls of his 1911 monoplane glider, in which he flew about 50 times in Evergreen Valley in San Jose. Montgomery, a native of Sutter County, is a key California ...
Every day, the Federal Aviation Administration manages an average of 45,000 flights covering 29 million square miles of airspace. On average, 2.9 million people board an airliner to go somewhere in ...
Crouch, Tom D. 2003. First Flight: The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Airplane. Washington. D.C.: National Park Service. In Handbook (United States ...