When they built the first airplane that carried a man, the Wright brothers were inspired tinkerers, not original thinkers; they did not concoct the theories on which their contraption was based. That ...

As the 150th anniversary of the first manned flight is celebrated on Saturday, BBC News Online's Peter Gould reports on unsung hero Sir George Cayley, the "father of aviation". Ask anyone about the ...

It is impossible to talk about Brompton by Sawdon without mentioning – in the same breath – its most famous connections: George Cayley and William Wordsworth. Did you know with a Digital Subscription ...

With all the hoopla surrounding the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers' legendary flight, it'd be easy to overlook the work of an eccentric English baronet, Sir George Cayley. But Cayley is as ...

To be sure, Orville and Wilbur deserve a lot of credit. They are generally accepted as the first to make a sustained, manned, powered, controlled flight in a heavier-than-air craft. However, they ...

When some Connecticut boosters recently dusted off the claim that ­Gustave Whitehead, of the township of Fairfield in that great state, was "first in flight," I, and I suspect quite a few others, ...

Shell sponsorship | Sir George Cayley | Old friends reunited | Retrieving the Guardian | Obtaining the Guardian In Bob Ward’s point-missing riposte to George Monbiot’s criticism of the Science ...

From contemporary news articles and earlier hints from Sir George Cayley, a cartoonist created this depiction of what the 1834 mystery craft could look like. Jim Baker/Ohio Historical Society For more ...

Before 1914, anyone who expressed an interest in flying machines was widely regarded as either a charlatan or a lunatic. Some of the early pioneers of flight were confidence tricksters or eccentrics ...

The Note-book, here printed for the first time, was discovered among miscellaneous manuscript papers at Brompton hall, the home of the Cayley family in the North Riding of Yorkshire. cf. Introduction ...

A replica of the first aircraft to take to the skies is being constructed by defence workers. Sir George Cayley's glider took off from Brompton Dale, near Scarborough, in 1853, carrying his coachman ...