Choose a format: Windows Media | Real Media | Mpeg Nearly a century ago, Goodyear built the first aircraft tire, and it was just the beginning of greater things to come. To help ensure dependability, Goodyear would also be the first tire company to invent an aircraft tire testing machine and the first to develop aircraft tire retreads and radials.

Today, Goodyear salutes the Wright brothers, the two bicycle builders from Dayton, Ohio, who also taught themselves how to build the world's first powered aircraft able to sustain flight. It was the Wright brothers' success that developed the mechanics of flight as we still know them today -- more than 100 years later.

Goodyear's aircraft tires have been proven in performance and keep performing under the most stringent demands for nearly 100 years. That ongoing commitment to quality has made Goodyear the world's leading supplier of aircraft tires.