Orville Wright

Legendary astronauts awarded Congressional Gold Medals

2011-11-16 16:36:44

<![CDATA[Legendary astronauts awarded Congressional Gold Medals]]>

School named for Sandra Cisneros to open in Echo Park

2011-06-28 16:34:36

<![CDATA[School named for Sandra Cisneros to open in Echo Park]]>

Francis Rogallo dies at 97; engineer invented flexible wing that enabled hang gliding

2009-09-10 00:00:00

Francis Rogallo, an aeronautical engineer who was considered the father of modern hang gliding and other recreational sports for inventing a flexible wing in 1948 that revolutionized nonpowered flight, has died. He was 97. Rogallo died Sept. 1 of natural...

John McCain returned from Vietnam determined to lead

2008-04-14 00:00:00

When John McCain limped home from a Hanoi prison camp in 1973 with a badly injured knee that he could not bend, Navy doctors gave him the bad news: His 15-year career as a jet pilot was over. He would never fly again. But McCain surprised his doctors...

A drive to save Tempelhof Airport, base of the Berlin airlift

2008-04-27 00:00:00

Gabriele Leech-Anspach was a young mother with a toddler when Soviet authorities suddenly imposed a blockade on West Berlin in 1948, cutting off all road, train and boat access and leaving 2.2 million Berliners stranded on an island of the new Cold War....

Business and labor leaders

2008-12-28 00:00:00

Business and labor leaders Russell J. Hammer, 54; former president and chief executive of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce credited with revitalizing the organization (Jan. 28) Peter Newton, 81; Napa Valley vintner who founded Sterling Vineyards...

Living Here: Nearby attractions

2012-05-23 09:47:00

Many destinations are within easy driving distance of Hampton Roads. Pack a cooler, fill up the tank and hit the road. 1. Appomattox Court House, Appomattox The buildings and fields where Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate army are still a...

Awarding gold medals to astronauts is no small step for lawmakers

2011-10-03 16:33:52

Wright Bros. first bicycle shop faces demolition

2012-02-16 21:47:43

Bridgeport Resident Gustave Whitehead May Have Flown Two Years Before the Wright Brothers

2011-08-09 12:13:00

A locally-bred controversy has snapped at the heels of American icons Orville and Wilbur Wright for years. It is this: Did Bridgeport resident Gustave Whitehead successfully fly in a powered airplane in 1901, more than two years before the Wright brothers...

TODAY IN HISTORY

2011-07-27 07:43:02

1789: President George Washington signed a measure establishing the Department of Foreign Affairs, forerunner of the Department of State. 1909: During the first official test of the U.S. Army's first airplane, Orville Wright flew himself and a...

Hit the road: Nearby attractions

2010-05-20 00:00:00

>Many destinations are within easy driving distance of Hampton Roads. Pack a cooler, fill up the tank and hit the road. 1. Appomattox Court House, Appomattox The buildings and fields where Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate army are still a...

One helped invent the airplane. The other preached nonviolence.

2009-06-26 06:44:45

Actors play the Wright brothers at the inventors' family home, relocated to Greenfield Village from Ohio.

2004-09-22 13:16:11

At the Wright Experience, a plane-restoration shop in Warrenton, Va., Greg Cone (on floor) places fabric on the wing panels of the 1903 Wright Flyer reproduction.

2003-12-17 00:00:00