We visited the Wright Brothers National Memorial in Kill Devil Hills, south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, where Wilbur and Orville Wright achieved the first successful powered airplane flights.

Here’s the NPS map; click or tap to interact:

An interactive map:

Entrance:

Visitor Center:

Relief map:

Exhibits:

A full-sized reproduction of the first plane:

Home away from home:

First flights:

First flights launch marker:

Looking along flight path:

First flight marker; 12 seconds, 120 feet, December 17, 1903:

Second flight marker:

Third flight marker:

Fourth flight marker:

First flight markers, and info sign about the launch rail:

Monument:

Plane sculpture:

Impressive how we’ve come so far since then.