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The Epic Etched in Kitty Hawk's Sands

Man's conquest of the air is commemorated in a monument recently dedicated above the sand hills of Kitty Hawk. The writer of the following article attended the unveiling with Orville Wright, who, with his brother, Wilb·u·r, opened the way_ to the new era in transportation. By Anne 0' Hare McCorm1ck

Kill Devil Hill is not exactly where it was on the gusty December morning in 1903 when Orville Wright took off from . a crude monorail near its base, took off in a home-made plane equipped with a home-made engine-"the crate that flew"

-and for twelve breathless, humpy seconds experienced a thrill no human creature had ever known before. Sine~ then the hill has moved 400 or 500 feet along the North Carolina dunes. Even its shape has changed, says Mr. Wright, revisiting the scene of that epic adventure.

The contours of the sandy billows roundabout are not the same contours he and his brother saw duriug the three Autumns in which they glided from this height, developing a system of control, testing their new tables .of air pressures, learning how to _fly. He has a precise memory and he can never forget how the ground looked as he ·lay prone between the first wings that gave man the balance of the bird in motion and felt himself carried through the air by a power other than the wind.

Now the historic hill will move no more. It has been tethered in its place by tough, matted gra.sses planted on its sides and looms dark and still in the pale and shifting sands. It is weighted down by 25,000 tons of masonry, a granite pylon mounted on a concrete foundation thirty·

five feet deep and anchored to a star·

shaped buttress. The wedge-shaped pylon, its flanks carved to suggest outspread 'I wings, looks like a prow uplifted between a sea of sand and a sea of cloud. In its formalized, modernized, wholly American- ized way, it has the effect of the Winged · Victory of a new world.

* * *

This reef was choosen by the Wrights for their experiments with gliders because it was described by the Weather Bureau as the windiest spot in the United States.

They liked the solitude, the soft landing- places. So did the birds before them, the wild geese, the wild ducks, the gulls and the wide-winged gannets that flap about, usmg the dunes as a kind of central station on their aerial routes. Kitty Hawk was named for a bird by one of the ship·

Wrecked who alone inhabited the coast, though neither that ancient mariner nor his descendants could have imagined that he . was bestowing an oddly appropriate designation on what was to be indeed the cradle of a breed of bird men.

* * *

Kitty Hawk itself is a little settlement of fishermen's houses lying northwest of Kill Devil Hills. It is scattered vaguely along Kitty Hawk Bay, looking toward

the mainland. On the opposite side of the narrow reef, facing the ocean, are tiny gray huddles of houses, a few miles apart. These are the government life saving stations- Kitty Hawk, Kill Devil, Nag's Head, Bodie Island; they are manned by the Coast Guard, now mostly on the lookout for smugglers and rum- runners. The Wright brothers rigged up their first tent under a clump of trees in the neighborhood of Kitty Hawk in the Summer of hOJ. The next season they built a shack in the sand near the foot of Kill Devil Hill. It was there that they worked and argued and tested - "the workingest boys I ever saw," says an old captain of the Coast Guard - and there they made their first flights.

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At the end of the fourth trial, which covered 1<52 feet and lasted 59 seconds, they warmed themselves at their carbide- can stove and walked over the sands to telegraph the news to their father in Dayton. The message was intercepted at Norfolk, next day appeared in The Vir·

ginian Pilot and thence was flashed across the country by The Associated Press.

Only a few papers had the temerity to print so wild a yarn about two unknown young men in an unheard-of place called Kitty Hawk.

Even five years later, when. the brothers went back to Carolina with a new machine and flew dozens of times, more than forty miles an hour and as much as eight miles at a stretch, the press was derisive or in- credulous. But because the fantasy was first announced under a Kitty Hawk date- line, Kitty Hawk ever since has been the generic name for the whole locality.

* * *

Few men in history have seen their· in·

ventions complete a cycle of development as dramatic as this. Few have lived to stand on their own monuments. Fewer still could take a place in history or drama more casually or impersonally than the inventor of the airplane. . .. (After the ceremony) Mr. Wright expanded among his old friends, the natives of the coast, many of whom remembered "the boys"

when they tinkered and cooked and fought mosquitos in their ship-shape little camp, when they watched the gannets soar and flew their crazy kites among the sand-hills.

Captain William J. Tate was there with Adam Etheridge and John T.

Daniels, two survivors of the Coast Guard who assisted in the launching of the first plane. Captain Tate is spry and eloquent.

This is a more exciting day for him than it is for Orville Wright. It was he who brought this glory to Kitty Hawk, and in his own eyes he is a kind of precursor, an instrument in one of the great events of his time. Now the captain is keeper of the lights at Coin Jock, up the coast, but in 1900 his wife was postmistress at Kitty Hawk and it fell to him, as the reader and man of parts in the community, to answer the letter from the Wrights asking about the topography of Kitty Hawk and its suitability for experiments with gliders.

"It couldn't have been by accident," he says, "that I had read a magazine article by Octave Chanute about gliders. I knew exactly what the Wrights wanted. I de·

scribed it so accurately that it was no time at all until a tall young man with a face like a hawk knocked at the door. 'I am Wilbur Wright,' he said in a low voice,

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