KIDS QUIZ
FAMOUS INVENTORS AND INVENTIONS
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What is the significance to Kitty Hawk, NC to the aviation industry?
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The world’s first commercial airline flight launched from Kitty Hawk, NC in 1914.
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Frank Whittle, inventor of the airline jet engine, was born in Kitty Hawk, NC in 1907.
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The world’s first powered, sustained sustained flight was performed by the Wright Brothers in Kitty Hawk, NC in 1903.
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Charles Lindbergh completed his first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight when he landed in Kitty Hawk, NC, in 1927.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -In 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright, two brothers from Dayton, OH, became the first people to fly a heavier than air, power controlled machine, known as the Wright Flyer. This did not simply happen overnight. The brothers had been tinkering with the idea of flight off and on since childhood.
Detailed explanation-2: -The brothers picked Kitty Hawk because they needed a number of conditions for their flying experiments: steady winds, high sand dunes, limited obstructions including trees and buildings, and also isolation.
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