On this day in aviation history, 66 years ago (September 17, 1959), the North American X-15 made its first powered flight. At the controls was legendary test pilot Scott Crossfield, renowned for his ...

Today, Wilbur and Orville Wright are as synonymous with the first to achieve powered flight as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are with the first to walk on the moon. But it wasn't always so. In a four ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — History was made on this day 121 years ago when the Wright Brothers ran the first powered flight in human history. On the anniversary of the historic flight, the San Diego Air ...

122 years ago, the era of powered flight began when Orville and Wilbur Wright took their airplane into the air for the first time. KPBS reporter John Carroll says an event at the San Diego Air and ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) — Orville and Wilbur Wright made history on Dec. 17, 1903, when they completed the world’s first successful powered airplane flight near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — More than 120 years later, the first powered flight is set to be honored. Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is inviting the public to visit Wright Brothers Memorial, located on ...

The state of Connecticut made a joint resolution in 2013 to celebrate the nation’s first powered flight, and it wasn’t by the Wright Brothers. Connecticut is the only state that recognizes a German ...