File:Hike to Memorial Tower, Wright Brothers National Memorial, Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina (14260752840).jpg
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Wright Brothers National Memorial, located in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, commemorates the first successful, sustained, powered flights in a heavier-than-air machine. From 1900 to 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright came here from Dayton, Ohio, based on information from the U.S. Weather Bureau about the area's steady winds. They also valued the privacy provided by this location, which in the early twentieth century was remote from major population centers. The Wrights made four flights from level ground near the base of the hill on December 17, 1903, following three years of gliding experiments from atop this and other nearby sand dunes. It is possible to walk along the actual routes of the four flights, with small monuments marking their starts and finishes. A 60-foot (18 m) granite monument, dedicated in 1932, is perched atop 90-foot-tall (27 m) Kill Devil Hill, commemorating the achievement of the Wright brothers. They conducted many of their glider tests on the massive shifting dune that was later stabilized to form Kill Devil Hill. Inscribed in capital letters along the base of the memorial tower is the phrase "In commemoration of the conquest of the air by the brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright conceived by genius achieved by dauntless resolution and unconquerable faith." Atop the tower is a marine beacon, similar to one found in a lighthouse. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_Brothers_National_Memorial" rel="nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_Brothers_National_Memorial</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License" rel="nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_...</a> |
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Source | Hike to Memorial Tower, Wright Brothers National Memorial, Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina |
Author | Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA |
Camera location | 36° 00′ 57.67″ N, 75° 40′ 05.37″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 36.016019; -75.668159 |
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Date and time of data generation | 13:13, 16 June 2014 |
Lens focal length | 21.52 mm |
Latitude | 36° 0′ 57.67″ N |
Longitude | 75° 40′ 5.37″ W |
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File change date and time | 13:33, 17 June 2014 |
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GPS time (atomic clock) | 20:13 |
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GPS date | 16 June 2014 |
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