So here some pictures of my visit to Kitty Hawk. We visited the Wright monument and the spot where they did their first flight.
If you're ever in the neighborhood. you really should visit this, after all, it is the place where it all began. They have a nice little visitors center where the story of the brothers is told to you in a very entertaining way. The place where they took of and the places they landed on those 4 flights are marked with stones.
Anyway, here some pictures:
A replica of the first Flyer in the visitors center
The replica's controls are functioning. The guy who did the lecture operates the elevator here. He also showed the warp mechanism which the brothers used as aileron.
Replica of the brother's hangar, next to it, the shed they lived in. The replicas stand at the spot where the original ones once stood.
This pipe I am pointing at, sticking out of the ground, is the original well that Wilbur drilled into the ground for fresh water. Thus prove that the replica sheds are at the right spot.
The spot where they took off. I'm not sure if the rail is the original one or a replica, but the brothers used a similar rail as a runway to take off from. The stone in the front marks the spot where the flyer went into the air. In the back you see 4 other stones, marking the distance of each flight. The first stone really doesn't look a huge distance. I could almost jump that one. The list flight of the day, made by Wilbur, is significantly longer than the 3 earlier flights. It's prove that the brothers learned fast how to handle the aircraft.
The "Kill Devil Hill", it was the dune on which they performed their glider trials from in the years 1900 - 1902. Back then it was all sand. The hill has been preserved by putting vegetation on it and they put a monument on top now.
If you're ever in the neighborhood. you really should visit this, after all, it is the place where it all began. They have a nice little visitors center where the story of the brothers is told to you in a very entertaining way. The place where they took of and the places they landed on those 4 flights are marked with stones.
Anyway, here some pictures:
A replica of the first Flyer in the visitors center
The replica's controls are functioning. The guy who did the lecture operates the elevator here. He also showed the warp mechanism which the brothers used as aileron.
Replica of the brother's hangar, next to it, the shed they lived in. The replicas stand at the spot where the original ones once stood.
This pipe I am pointing at, sticking out of the ground, is the original well that Wilbur drilled into the ground for fresh water. Thus prove that the replica sheds are at the right spot.
The spot where they took off. I'm not sure if the rail is the original one or a replica, but the brothers used a similar rail as a runway to take off from. The stone in the front marks the spot where the flyer went into the air. In the back you see 4 other stones, marking the distance of each flight. The first stone really doesn't look a huge distance. I could almost jump that one. The list flight of the day, made by Wilbur, is significantly longer than the 3 earlier flights. It's prove that the brothers learned fast how to handle the aircraft.
The "Kill Devil Hill", it was the dune on which they performed their glider trials from in the years 1900 - 1902. Back then it was all sand. The hill has been preserved by putting vegetation on it and they put a monument on top now.
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