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Philly Museum in Odd Fight Over Wright Brothers Plane
Unusual Fight Unfolds
Over Wright Brothers Plane
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Dec 7, 2024 12:30 PM CST

Unusual Fight Unfolds Over Wright Brothers Plane

Family of man it came from in the 1930s wants it back from the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia

(Newser) - If you visit the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, you can see a 1911 plane built by the Wright Brothers in its collection. But as the New York Times reports, an unexpected custody fight has emerged over the plane nearly a century after it arrived there. What's not in dispute...

Flying Taxis to Be Built in Wright Brothers' Hometown

Joby Aviation strikes a deal to put manufacturing facility for electric aircraft in Dayton

(Newser) - The same Ohio river valley where the Wright brothers pioneered human flight will soon be manufacturing electric planes that take off and land vertically, under an agreement announced Monday between the state and Joby Aviation Inc. Around the world, electric vertical takeoff and landing, or eVTOL, aircraft are entering the...

Wright Brothers Would've Noticed Goof on License Plate

First design shows Wright Flyer pushing, instead of pulling, a banner

(Newser) - Ohio's debut of its new license plate failed to take off—because a banner depicted on the plate was attached to the wrong end of the Wright brothers' historic first plane, the Wright Flyer. The new license plate illustrates rays of sunlight beaming into the sky, with a banner...

Part of the Wright Brothers' 1st Airplane Is on Mars

The helicopter Ingenuity features a postage-size piece of muslin

(Newser) - A piece of the Wright brothers' first airplane is on Mars. NASA’s experimental Martian helicopter holds a small swatch of fabric from the 1903 Wright Flyer, the space agency revealed Tuesday. The helicopter, named Ingenuity, hitched a ride to the red planet with the Perseverance rover, arriving last month....

Google Co-Founder's Flying Car Takes Off

Kitty Hawk Flyer will be available later this year

(Newser) - Airbus' flying car might have competition. Kitty Hawk, a Silicon Valley startup named for the location of the Wright brothers' first controlled flight and backed by Google co-founder Larry Page, has revealed its flying car prototype and says buyers will be able to get their hands on a similar design...

Missing Patent for Wright Bros' 'Flying Machine' Found in Cave

The 'holy grail' of lost documents hadn't been seen in decades

(Newser) - Missing for decades, the Wright brothers' patent for their "Flying Machine" was found last month in a manila envelope among 15-foot-high stacks of patent files in a limestone cave outside a small Kansas city. The Washington Post has a fascinating story on how the "holy grail" of missing...

Wright Brothers Weren't First to Fly: Expert

But Smithsonian refutes claim

(Newser) - A newly discovered photo is fueling a controversial theory that a German immigrant in Connecticut was really "first in flight"—not the Wright brothers. An amateur historian found a photo in Germany that some say shows the real first plane flight, by one Gustave Whitehead. The photo—which...

Replica Wright Brothers' Plane Crashes, Killing 2

New replica built using modern parts, was just a month old

(Newser) - A replica of the Wright brothers' Model B 1910 plane crashed in Ohio yesterday, killing both of its pilots, reports CNN . The plane, which was first launched in June, was built with a modern engine, materials, and controls, and was modified to make it easier to transport, but resembled the...

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