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Welcome to the Virtual Tour of The Wright Brothers & The Invention of the Aerial Age exhibition opened in 2022 at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. This exhibition explores who ...

George Washington did cut down a cherry tree ... Wilbur and Orville Wright, the legendary brothers, together invented manned mechanical flight. To deconstruct that myth today, all we really ...

Spurred by scientific curiosity, technological advancements, and a desire to conquer the skies, inventors across the planet began drawing up plans to create the world’s first flying machine, but ...

Swann Galleries will present A Singular History of Photography: 100 Works from the Stephen White Collection in the spring Fine Photographs auction on Thursday, April 27. A Ben Franklin signed document ...

Japan’s first flight closely followed America’s, inspired by the Wright Brothers’ groundbreaking achievement ... Tokorozawa Airfield has been transformed into the Tokorozawa Aviation Museum, a site ...

Selected artists will receive awards of up to $200,000 per statue, which must be made of marble, granite, bronze, copper, or ...

A Springfield air mobility event is returning in October for its fourth year, with the addition of an aircraft race last seen in the 1920s. The National Advanced Air Mobility Forum will be held Oct. 8 ...

America’s Cultural Treasures: This article is part of a series sponsored by the Ford Foundation highlighting the work of museums and organizations that have made a significant impact on the ...

Governor Haribhau Bagde stated that Shivkar Bapuji Talpade flew the first aeroplane in 1895 in Mumbai, based on ancient Sanskrit aero-science, predating the Wright brothers. He also claimed that ...

Black church leaders are opposing proposed budget cuts against the museum in Washington, D.C. Trump says the Smithsonian is expressing what ... citing the "divisive" statements of its previous pastor, ...

Described as Orville and Wilbur Wright's crowning achievement, the world's first practical fixed-wing aircraft made its seminal sustained flight in an Ohio cow pasture called Huffman Prairie, outside ...