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Wilbur and Orville Wright conducted the first successful manned, powered airplane flights near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

Take a few minutes to think about how others have made a difference in your life and thank them for what they do, urges columnist-Vigorito.

capitalized on the nascent and growing aviation industry that sprang up almost immediately after the Wright Brothers took flight at Kitty Hawk. The company name was changed to Lockheed Aircraft ...

By Randy Malmstrom Since his childhood, Randy Malmstrom has had a passion for aviation history and historic military aircraft in particular. He has a particular penchant for documenting specific ...

You launched from the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk. Then, you parachuted into enemy territory ... “How many times did I pass the man whose job would eventually save my life because I was a fighter ...

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The commander this time was Frank Borman, a graduate of West Point who’d been a fighter pilot in the ... the Wright brothers made history at Kitty Hawk, he built a full-sized glider that flew ...

“Orville, I don’t think we’re in Kitty Hawk anymore!” Step into the Wright brothers ... you can almost hear the whoosh of those first rickety planes taking flight. Or maybe that’s just the sound of ...

In 1979, a Soviet Echo II submarine was stalking the USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier, which was sailing near ... The P-61 was large for a fighter—66-foot wingspan, dual engines, a twin-boom ...

The United States aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk is on its way to a scrapyard in Texas and too large to slip through the Panama Canal, the ship must sail around South America. In her 16,000-mile ...