The Wright flyer at Kitty Hawk

Our friend Rebekah sent us some great pictures from Kitty Hawk. I would love to go there again soon. I was thinking today that aviation has come a long way, but the principles of flight are still the same. Bryan’s son Brad is now doing graduate work in Aeronautical Engineering at UT Austin. I wonder if Bryan remembers when he and I took his hang glider to Grandma Knight’s place and actually got the thing off the ground. It was pretty exciting and pretty scary, too. Hey, Bryan, do you have any of the old pictures you took from that day?

This is a life size reenactment of the famous photograph of the first flight on which people can climb. It was very cool because you get a real sense for the setting and the aircraft. It was fun and interesting for us — it must have been an amazing event for the Wright brothers and their party.

This is a picture of the boys beside a working replica of the original Wright flyer. We had just listened to a twenty minute talk about the plane and its development by a member of the park service.

The guys had a great time just hanging out together for a few days.