December 17 is Wright Brothers Day and it commemorates the first successful flights in a heavier than air, mechanically propelled airplane, that were made by Orville and Wilbur Wright on December 17, 1903, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Learn about this famous world changing achievement and other inventors and aviators of the past and the pioneers who first revealed the four forces of flight. See images of aircraft past, present and future. See how airplanes fly through demonstrations and learn what it takes to be a pilot today!
Imagine where flight might take us.
