Kitty Hawk, North Carolina - 5th to 9th February 2003
The historic area where the Wright Brothers made their first ever powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine. We saw the memorial, went hang gliding, and flew a kite.
Bridge to Manteo / Roanoke Island
Outer Banks Houses
Outer Banks Houses
Outer Banks Houses
Field in which the Wright Brothers made the first flight
Reconstruction of Wright Brothers hangar (foreground), Wright Brothers Memorial (background)
Wright Brothers Hangar & Living Quarters
Take-off point to various landing points of the Wright Brothers flights
Different angle of take off & landing points
The Wright Brothers Memorial
Close up
At the foot of the memorial
Wilbur & Orville Wright
Wilbur & Orville Wright
View from top of memorial down to flight area and the town of Kill Devil Hills
The boys themselves
View out to the Atlantic, our hotel central
The Food Lion
View out to sea from our hotel room / balcony area
View inland from the hotel
Bodie Island Light House
Interior of the light house - view upwards
Inside Bodie Island Light House
Inside Bodie Island Light House
Hang Gliding - preparing the glider
Doing a "hang check"
Audrey taking off...
Audrey taking off...
...in the air...
... and landing
Mark in the air
The dune from where we launched
One of the instructors about to take the glider down
Our lovely pocket kite, on the beach. The lack of any wind meant running like a mad thing to keep it in the air at all.
© Mark Hughes & Audrey Bowerman, February 2003
page created: 9th February 2003 | updated: 13th August 2005