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At Kill Devil Hills, the Wright brothers found the wind and sand they had sought for flying experiments. In a letter of October 18, 1900, Orville Wright wrote that the sand fairly blinded them and blew across the ground in clouds. Wilbur Wright later described the practice ground there as a level plain of bare sand from which rose a group of detached hills or mounds formed by sand heaped up by the winds, with heights and slopes constantly changing according to the direction and force of the prevailing winds.
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Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina · United States
