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| a village in NE North Carolina: Wright brothers' airplane flight 1903. |
| Kit·ty Hawk (kĭt'ē hôk') A village of northeast North Carolina on a sandy peninsula between Albemarle Sound and the Atlantic Ocean. Nearby is Kill Devil Hill, the site of the Wright brothers' first two successful flights (December 17, 1903). |
Kitty Hawk
town, Dare county, northeastern North Carolina, U.S. It lies on Bodie Island, a narrow sand barrier (one of the Outer Banks) facing the Atlantic Ocean opposite Albemarle Sound. Immediately south at Kill Devil Hills is Wright Brothers National Memorial (1927; see ), commemorating the flight there of Wilbur and Orville Wright on December 17, 1903, the first powered airplane flight in the United States (see ). The name Kitty Hawk is probably derived from a Native American (Algonquian) name recorded on maps of the early 1700s as Chickahauk; its meaning is uncertain.
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