Wilbur Wright

Other designs all chose to pin the tail on the airplane.

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.

Museums and aircraft enthusiasts mark the occasion with fly-ins and reflection.

The first flight of the Douglas DC-3 series turned modern air transport into reality.

The Wright brothers’ first flight isn’t the only aviation happening that occurred on December 17.