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Kitty Hawk

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Kitty Hawk

Resort town in northeastern North Carolina, on Bodie Island, between Kitty Hawk Bay, an inlet of Albemarle Sound, and the Atlantic Ocean; population (1990) 1,900. Just southeast is Kill Devil Hills (population (1990) 4,200), where the Wright brothers made the first sustained aeroplane flight on 17 December 1903. The Wright Brothers National Memorial is here.



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Boyne describes the rugged life at Kitty Hawk so vividly that the reader will almost feel the wind and sand.
Boyne, Walter J. Dawn over Kitty Hawk by Boyd, John E. / Kliatt
From the first gliders to the development of a military aircraft to the final installation of the Kitty Hawk Flyer at the Smithsonian Institution, this volume paints a visually arresting portrait of the Wright brothers' contribution to humankind.
The Wright Brothers Legacy: Orville and Wilbur Wright and Their ... by Science News
Young Tom Tate of Kitty Hawk has a penchant for "making up stories," but what he tells his friends one day in 1900 is true: he has just met two men from Ohio who "say they are going to fly through the air like birds.
First Flight: The Story of Tom Tate and the Wright Brothers by Parravano, Martha V. / The Horn Book Magazine
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