August 28, 2008
A Century of Flight
A series of occasional articles following the centennial anniversary of aviation and exploring the history of flight.
A Century of Flight
For first flight's centennial, reproducing the Wright idea
KILL DEVIL HILLS, N.C. - No one knows exactly what the world's first successful airplane - the Wright brothers' 1903 Flyer - looked like when it lifted off a wooden launching rail at Kitty Hawk, N.C., and into history a century ago today. More
By Johnathon E. Briggs
Whither wind for Wrights
One in a series of occasional articles More
Wright Brothers flew into a newspaper fog
One in a series of occasional articles More
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Soaring on the hope of equality
One in a series of occasional articles More
From The Sun's Archive
Making Orville Wright soar again
Every presentation begins the same: Jim Spence arranges his props - an empty inner tube box, a ball of twine and a stick topped with counter-rotating propellers - on a table before an audience. More
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Long-delayed flight to land
The whirling screech of a power drill emanating from inside the chipped white barn can mean only one thing: Andrew King is resurrecting the past. More
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Prize lifts would-be spacefarers
One in a series of occasional articles More
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Trappe resident is 'Wright' pilot for job
A Maryland woman's quest to re-enact the Wright brothers' first flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C., 100 years later ended victoriously at a Wisconsin air show yesterday where she was named as one of two "Pilots of the Century." More
By Johnathon E. Briggs
Rosy future for flight's past
One in a series of occasional articles. More
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Model rockets soar on delicate odyssey
THE PLAINS, Va. - In its three-month odyssey of trial and error, the model rocket code-named R.A.V.E.N. had its share of disasters. More
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A Century of Flight
Wrights saw airplanes as tools of peace
We think of war and we think of airplanes. More
A Century of Flight
Soaring to retrace Wright brothers
First in an occasional series More
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