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Posted on January 15 2021
It takes a lot to stand out in today’s overcrowded sea of brands. For some marketers and brands, a connection to deceased icons could be the answer. An icon is...
Posted on January 11 2021
Wilbur made his first flight demonstration in Le Mans, France, before a crowd of 200.
Posted on January 10 2021
Wilbur and Orville Wright make the world’s first free, controlled, and sustained flights in power-driven, heavier-than-air machine.
Posted on January 09 2021
Wilbur and Orville Wright opened their first bicycle sales and repair shop called the Wright Cycle Exchange in December 1892.
Posted on January 08 2021
Lorin Wright, older brother of Wilbur and Orville Wright and president of Miami Wood Specialty Company, dies in Dayton, Ohio at age 77.
Posted on January 07 2021
The Wright Company was the commercial aviation business venture of the Wright brothers. The two buildings in Dayton were the first in the United States constructed specifically for an airplane factory.
Posted on January 06 2021
The Wright Memorial on Kill Devil Hill in Kitty Hawk, N.C., was dedicated. Orville Wright was the guest of honor at the dedication and accepted the monument on behalf of himself and his deceased brother, Wilbur Wright (who passed in 1912).
Posted on January 05 2021
Orville Wright attends the National Geographic Society’s ceremonies in Washington, D.C., in which the society’s Hubbard Gold Medal is presented to Charles Lindbergh.
Posted on January 04 2021
The most prominent competitor to the Wright brothers—and the only one with government funding—was the secretary of the Smithsonian, Samuel Pierpont Langley.
Posted on August 05 2020
The Wright brothers fly their first manned glider at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, to test their control system. It does not produce enough lift to make more than a handful...
Posted on July 20 2020
For the first time, Orville Wright spends his summer vacation at his summer home on Lambert Island, in Georgian Bay in Canada.
Posted on June 04 2020
Glenn H. Curtiss sells his Curtiss No. 1 airplane, the first commercial sale of an airplane in the United States, to Aeronautic Society of New York for $7,500.
Posted on May 22 2020
Edward VII, King of Great Britain, who the Wright brothers had met during their flight demonstrations in Europe in 1909, passes away May 6, 1910.
Posted on May 22 2020
In 1908 the Wright brothers demonstrate a two-passenger airplane in Europe and America. Orville crashes during a U.S. Army demonstration flight and is badly injured. His passenger, Lt. Thomas Selfridge, becomes the first person to die in an airplane crash.
Posted on May 22 2020
In 1910 the Wright brothers open the first civilian flight training school in Montgomery, Alabama. They also introduce their most successful commercial aircraft, the Wright Model B.
Posted on May 22 2020
In 1909 the Wright brothers demonstrated a new airplane (Model A) and the U.S. Army bought its first aircraft (Military Flyer) from the brothers. The Wrights began to manufacture airplanes and teach pilots.
Posted on December 16 2018
Wright Brothers Day 2018 will mark the 115th anniversary of the world's first manned, powered flight. In honor of this significant achievement, we examine how Wilbur and Orville's childhood influenced their later achievements.
Posted on October 22 2018
The Wrights had been observing large birds in flight above the Great Miami River, and theorized that birds changed the angle of their wings to make their bodies roll right or left, tilting one wing up and the other wing down at the same time.
Posted on September 25 2018
Dayton, Ohio. BUILT WRIGHT-TO-ORDER, Wright-inspired bikes are being assembled again (after more than a hundred years) in the very city the brothers called home, Dayton, Ohio. The Wright Brothers® custom...
Posted on August 11 2018
The Wright Brothers USA, a commercial arm of The Wright Brothers Family Foundation, is now offering two ‘Built Wright in the USA’ bicycles, the Van Cleve™ 1896 (MSRP: $4,750) and the St. Clair™ 1896 (MSRP: $3,950), both named in homage to Wright family history.
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