Tuesday, 25 June 2002: 12:15 PM
They Taught the World to Fly—The Wright Brothers North Carolina Experience
This presentation will focus on the general
weather conditions at Kitty Hawk, NC, on the day of the Wright Brothers
successful first flight, December 17, 1903. The NCDC historical archive
weather records from both Cape Hatteras and the Kill Devil Hills, North
Carolina will be highlighted as well as surface weather maps from that
era. The presentation will also focus on weather conditions on other
dates and times in the early 20th Century that the Wright Brothers
conducted airplane flight trials.
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