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In my travels, I did stumble onto another memory: a house between Mooreland and Millville, Indiana, with a sign indicating it as the birthplace of Wilbur Wright before the bishop and his family moved to Dayton, Ohio.

Kirby Ortega received the award celebrating 50 years and more than 28,000 hours of safe flight time and instruction given.

The airline pilot and airshow star will receive the award jointly presented by the National Aeronautic Association and the Ninety-Nines.

When the RB-1 was constructed to compete in the 1920 Gordon Bennett trophy race in France, it utilized features unheard of in that era.

The early morning blaze at the sprawling complex is under investigation.

The retired U.S. Air Force colonel and space pioneer was NASA’s first woman shuttle commander.

The NAA and the Ninety-Nines bestow the award on a person who has contributed to the success of others

Building used by the siblings as a bike shop in Dayton, Ohio, to be torn down in 2022.

In honor of Aviation Day, August 19, celebrating Orville Wright’s birthday, we bring you a piece that explores the stories around the first powered, controlled flight–and inspires us all to go to Dayton where the brothers lived. Blame it on “alternative facts.” Or maybe it was “fake news” — the 1930s version, anyway. It turns […]

The National Aeronautic Association presented astronaut and former Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum director Michael Collins (Major General, USAF, Retired) with the Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy at a gala dinner hosted by the Washington Aero Club in Washington, D.C., on Friday, December 13, 2019. The trophy, established in 1948, honors the memory of the […]