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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6K5_a-hospitable-people_Kill-Devil-Hills-NC.html
If you decide to try your machine here...you will find a hospitable people...William J. Tate, Kitty Hawk Postmaster, in a letter to Wilbur Wright dated August 18, 1900
Wilbur and Orville Wright accepted Tate's invitation and found that the Oute…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6K3_12-seconds-that-changed-the-world_Kill-Devil-Hills-NC.html
After more than four years of hard work and experimentation, it only took the Wright brothers 12 seconds to change the world. On December 17, 1903, at 10:35, Orville Wright made the world's first controlled, powered, heavier-than-air flight.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6K1_experiments_Kill-Devil-Hills-NC.html
On the slope of Kill Devil Hill to the left, the Wright brothers experimented with gliders in the period 1900 - 1903.Here also Wilbur Wright failed in an attempted power-driven flihgt, December 14, 1903. After just 3½ seconds in the air the W…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6JI_the-1903-flyer_Kill-Devil-Hills-NC.html
"A couple of small boys, who had come with the men from the station, made a hurried departure over the hill for home on hearing the engine start."Orville Wright, diary D. December 14, 1903
Determined to achieve powered flight before returning t…
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"Our new machine is a very great improvement over anything we had built before and over anything any one has built."Letter from Wilbur Wright to his father, October 2, 1902
The Wrights' experiments with the successful 1902 Glider solved most of…
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"Our first experiments were rather disappointing. The machine ... at times seemed to be entirely beyond control."Orville Wright in a letter to his sister Katharine, July 28, 1901
The 1901 experiments at Kill Devil Hills were considered a failur…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6JD_kill-devil-hills_Kill-Devil-Hills-NC.html
"...the sand fairly blinds us. It blows across the ground in clouds. We certainly can't complain of the place. We came down here for wind and sand, and we got them."Letter from Orville Wright to Katharine Wright, October 18, 1900
"The practice …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6A4_field-for-flight_Kill-Devil-Hills-NC.html
"Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so that we could discover them!!"Orville Wright, June 7, 1903
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6A2_four-powered-flights_Kill-Devil-Hills-NC.html
The Wright brothers made four successful sustained powered flights the morning of December 17, 1903. The commemorative granite boulder and replica monorail mark the lift-off point of those four flights, the numbered markers the terminating point.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6A1_big-kill-devil-hill_Kill-Devil-Hills-NC.html
Before construction of the memorial could begin, it would be necessary to stabilize the dune from which the Wright Brothers conducted their glider experiments. Twenty-five years of steady winds had moved Big Kill Devil Hill 450 feet southwest of i…