Gallery
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Kill Devil Hill Monument, as it appeared in 1929.
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Park Ranger Tom White demonstrates a model of the flexible wing of the Wright Flyer
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Photo of the monument from the rear.
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sign by the National Park Service
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Overview of the site taken from the memorial atop Kill Devil Hill.
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The first powered flight site from the east. The monument in the center was established in 1928.
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reproduction of the launch rail
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flight profile from the east
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first landing spot
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in 2001, the US Mint selected the first flight as the image North Carolina's issue in the state quarter series
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Famous quotes containing the word gallery:
“To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. Teach him something of natural history, and you place in his hands a catalogue of those which are worth turning round.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“It doesn’t matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serves a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)