15 for ’26 Ride #8: Wright Brothers National Memorial
Kill Devil Hills, NC
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Wright Brothers monument atop Big Kill Devil Hill, 1000 N. Croatan Highway, Kill Devil Hills, NC 27948 (Note: Entry fee applies, or National Parks and Federal Recreational Land passes are accepted.)
The morning of December 17, 1903 dawned cold and windy near Kitty Hawk, on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. There, Wilbur and Orville Wright, self-taught engineers from Dayton, Ohio, planned to make history. At 10:35am, their Wright Flyer airplane, with Orville at the controls, took off from the flat, sandy ground of Kill Devil Hills and remained airborne for 12 seconds, covering a distance of 120 feet. It was the first controlled, powered flight in history, firmly establishing the brothers as aviation pioneers.
In 1927, Congress authorized the creation of Kill Devil Hill Monument National Memorial, and a 60-foot-tall Art Deco granite memorial was dedicated there in 1932. The site was renamed Wright Brothers National Memorial in 1953.
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