Page received a patent for a flying machine before the Wright brothers and prior to their first powered ... bias still exists here and African American history has long been ignored and neglected ...

Root first told his readers about how the Wrights had "outstripped the world in demonstrating that a flying machine can be constructed without the use of a balloon" in the March 1, 1904 ...

The concept was to develop an actual flying ... deploying the first frontline helicopters before the end of WWII and to this day the only tiltrotor aircraft in service is the American V-22 Osprey.

Getting under way NOVA: Two brothers running a bicycle shop seem an unlikely pair to take on the challenge of building a flying machine ... plan for their first full-scale machine, the 1900 ...

American, and German manufacturers. This led to the development of aircraft such as the Sikorsky S-42 and Dornier Do X, which ...