On this day in aviation history, 116 years ago (July 25, 1909), the first successful airplane flight across the English Channel took place. At the controls was Louis Charles Joseph Blériot, a French ...
BRODHEAD, Wis. -- It was on December 17, 1903 when Orville and Wilbur Wright took flight for the first time. The brothers silenced skeptics when they staged their first successful powered flights near ...