For someone who has spent his entire professional life in aviation going to the Wright Brothers Memorial at Kill Devil Hills was akin to making a pilgrimage to Mecca. The exhibits are all very well done complete with a full scale replica of the original flying machine. In the picture I am standing at the point of takeoff. The stone markers indicate the landing point of the 4 first flights. The first flight at 120' was shorter than the wing span of a 747. the fourth flight was over 850'. Of particular note was one exhibit that pointed out we went from first flight to a man on the moon in 66 years!
