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THE WRIGHT MEMORIAL BEACON. KILL DEVIL HILLS. N. C.
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WILBUR
ORVILLE
WRICHT
SPEl ECOGNIION AND UNLONQUERABLE FAITH RIENA t
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NEAR KITTY HAWK
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The Wright Memorial, of North Carolina
granite, is mounted on top of the principal
dune of Kill Devil Hills, where Wilbur and
Orville Wright experimented with their glid.
er. On December 17, 1903, near the foot of
this hill, they successfully flew their plane
under its own power, the first flight of a
heavier-than-air machine ever made by man.
At night the beacon from the tower may sweep
across four-mile-wide Roanoke Sound from the
Birthplace of Aviation to the Birthplace of
the Nation.
