After a mysterious and lengthy disappearance, the historic patent documents for the Wright Brothers' groundbreaking flying machine have finally resurfaced and are now at home in the National Archives ...

The Wright brothers took flight for the first time the same year The New York Times published an editorial speculating it could take 1 to 10 million years to develop a successful flying machine. The ...

Charles Mallory claimed that this ungainly contraption carried him through the air for a distance of eighty feet although, conveniently, there were no other witnesses. Ohio license plates proclaim the ...