Word: hawked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First Flight. A biting cold wind was blowing 24 miles an hour along the beach at Kitty Hawk the morning of Dec. 17, 1903. The Wrights with their biplane and a few helpers were on a knoll. Dismally nearby was a horse and wagon. A man sat on the wagon seat, leaning patiently forward, his hands hanging loosely between his knees, the reins looped over a crooked finger. He was a native undertaker...
...Kitty Hawk that cold December week, Wilbur and Orville Wright tossed a coin to decide which would try the first flight. Wilbur won, got into the machine, rose a few feet. After three seconds the machine stalled. Next it was Orville's turn. He succeeded; he sustained the flight of a kite...
...tepid to flying. So the Wrights went to Europe. There they won recognition and financial backing. That is why, when Orville Wright believed that the Smithsonian Institution at Washington was erroneously giving the late Samuel Pierpont Langley credit for the first man-carrying airplane, he sent his Kitty Hawk plane to the Science Museum' at South Kensington, London, for preservation...
...lazy, rambling hamlet of less than 500 population on the long sandy reef that tidies up the ragged eastern shore of North Carolina. The reef at Kitty Hawk encloses Albemarle Sound; further south it makes Pamlico Sound...
Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. Garden City, N. Y. / Hawk, Falcon, Robin / Commercial, sport, military / . . . . . . . .$4,000 up / Pioneers;War service; research, manufacture (motors of planes) sales, service...