Believe it or not, a propeller-driven fighter plane was one of the stars of Vietnam sky combat. It's not still in service, ...

FDR created National Aviation Day in 1939, so go fly, watch a themed movie, post on social media, or wear a special T-shirt ...

Object Details Author Hobbs, Leonard S. 1896- Subject Wright, Orville 1871-1948 Wright, Wilbur 1867-1912 Summary In this fifth number of Smithsonian Annals of Flight Leonard S. Hobbs analyzes the ...

The engine incorporated a flexible (rubber band) drive on the flywheel which greatly reduced vibration and considerably extended the life of the chain drive that operated the propellers. The Wright ...

The 1905 Wright Flyer III has been named Ohio's official state aircraft. Here's why it's important to the Buckeye State, and aviation at large.

The New York start-up, which began as a developer of electric motors for future all-electric aircraft, has started a new battery-development arm called Wright Batteries, the firm said on 3 October.

U.S. startup Wright Electric has begun building a test cell to characterize the performance of its megawatt-scale electric propulsion systems for large commercial aircraft. Located in Albany, New ...

A fire has damaged the Dayton, Ohio factory built in 1910 by Orville and Wilbur Wright, the pioneers of powered, heavier-than-air aircraft. The rate of technical progress in aviation after the ...

T-1 aircraft, which are "medium range, twin engine jet trainer [s] used in advanced phase of specialized undergraduate pilot training for students selected to fly airlift or tanker aircraft ...