Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Full-size reproduction of the Wright brothers' 1900 glider, built in 2003. Fabric-covered wooden-frame biplane, with ...

KILL DEVIL HILLS, N.C. Historian Darrell Collins stood next to the aging replica of the Wright glider, put his hand on a strut and recounted how the mastery of manned flight actually happened a year ...

In 1900, a pair of brothers tested their first glider at Kitty Hawk, N.C., where the winds were strong and the sand was soft to cushion their landings. They roomed at first with the postmaster, Bill ...

That's the 1901 Wright glider out there, darting about at the end of its kite tether 10 feet in the air. Up here on a great dune, whipped by the blowing sand and a wind gusting to 25 mph, one of the ...