The Wright Brothers completed the first airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina on December 17, 1903. On September 12, 1909 Alberto Santos-Dumont made the first flight in Europe. The first U.S. Airmail service was begun on May 15, 1918 between New York City and Washington, D.C. Courtesy of the National Archives
On this day in 1903, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first successful flight in history of a self-propelled, heavier-than-air aircraft
The Wright Brothers are shown along with footage of some of their early test flights! On Dec. 17, 1903, they made near Kitty Hawk, N.C., the first controlled, sustained flights in a power-driven...
NASA Connect Video containing six segments as described below. NASA Connect segment exploring the first types of flights including kite flights. The video explores Kitty Hawk, North Carolina and...
NASA Connect segment exploring who the Wright Brothers were and how they designed and flew the first airplane. The video also explains the steps of the Engineering Method and how the Wright...
On February 1, 1960, the African American civil rights movement intensified when four black college students sat down at a whites-only lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to...
A death penalty documentary short film (10 minutes) by Scott Langley. The warden of North Carolina's Central Prison (Marvin Polk) narrates the preparation and final hours before a state execution...
