First Flight with the Wrights

From Virginia Beach we took a number of back roads to Kitty Hawk on the Outer Banks of North Carolina...to be more precise, we stopped at Kill Devil Hills, the site of the Wright brothers first flight on December 17th 1903. The first three attempts were a little over 100 feet but the 4th attempt they managed to keep it in air for over 800 feet thus achieving man's first powered flight...this was control of flow of air over the wings, weight being lifted, steering and controlling ascent and descent which we now of course take for granted.  BTW, Kill Devil Hills is 10 metres BELOW sea level (per GPS) and so Dave and I were hoping for no hurricane water flow.  This of course explains why all the summer homes are built high on stilts. A complete replica is setup.