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location in Kitty Hawk

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  In Kitty Hawk
  …at Kill Devil Hills is Wright Brothers National Memorial (1927; see photograph), commemorating the flight there of Wilbur and Orville Wright on December 17, 1903, the first powered airplane flight in the United States (see photograph). The name Kitty Hawk is probably derived from a Native American (Algonquian) name recorded…
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