Orville Wright on Wilbur Wright: Media

Videos

How gliders helped the Wright brothers invent the airplane
The Wright brothers experimented with gliders before building their first plane.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Orville Wright: flight of the first military airplane, 1909
The world's first military airplane is demonstrated for the U.S. Army in 1909 by...
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

Images

Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright
Orville and Wilbur Wright standing on a porch in Dayton, Ohio, United States, 1909.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (reproduction no. LC-USZ62-67331)
Wright brothers
Orville Wright making the first powered flight in a heavier-than-air craft, on December...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.