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  2. Jockey's Ridge State Park - Wikipedia

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    The tall dune area of Jockey's Ridge is known as a medano—a massive, asymmetrical, shifting hill of sand lacking vegetation. [7] The desert-like environment of the dunes makes life difficult here with little to no vegetation or animal life in this area. The notorious winds of the Outer Banks cause a continual shifting of sands on the dunes.

  3. The Winds of Kitty Hawk - Wikipedia

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    At the start of the 20th century, bicycle mechanics Wilbur and Orville Wright, begin tinkering with gliders on the windy sand dunes of Kitty Hawk. Three years and dozens of crashes later, the Wright brothers solve the technical problems that had stumped the best engineers in the world, and succeed in making the first successful powered flight.

  4. Wright Brothers National Memorial - Wikipedia

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    "Aviation: From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms". National Register of Historic Places. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. "Video: The Wright Brothers Monument". RTP TV. 2003. Wright, Hamilton M. (July 1930). "Chaining a Mountain of Sand". Popular Mechanics. Hearst Magazines. pp. 99– 100. ISSN 0032-4558.

  5. Wright brothers - Wikipedia

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    Soaring flight, Kitty Hawk, Oct. 1911 "Arrows indicate [the] 50 mile [per hour] wind, showing how [the] machine was sustained in a stationary position". [93] In May they went back to Kitty Hawk with their 1905 Flyer to practice for their contracted demonstration flights. Their privacy was lost when several correspondents arrived on the scene.

  6. Castle emerges from sand dunes at park in NC’s Outer Banks ...

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    As a result, parts of the course are buried 30 to 40 feet under sand, Greenwood says. The castle sits close to the crosswalk off 158 Bypass and is the only golf course structure known to survive ...

  7. The dunes are just the beginning of what’s so great about ...

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    The dunes are believed to be remnants of a massive lake, Laka Alamosa, that dried up roughly 440,000 years ago, according to the park’s website.Over time, the park says wind, water and sediment ...

  8. Wright Glider - Wikipedia

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    The new rudder was ready by 6 October, measured 5 feet (1.5 m) high, 14 inches (36 cm) wide, and had left or right movement of 30 degrees. Turns were coordinated by attaching the rudder to the same wires controlling wing warping. According to Combs, "In the last weeks of October at Kitty Hawk, they made more than a thousand gliding flights.

  9. Nags Head, North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    In May 2021, Nags Head was one of 11 communities (along with nearby Ocracoke, North Carolina) chosen by the United States Department of Energy to participate in the Energy Transitions Initiative Partnership Project, a program to provide federal aid for remote communities to modernize their electric infrastructure and resiliency through natural disasters and outages.

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