Having chosen the wind-blasted dunes of Kill Devil Hill at Kitty Hawk on the Outer Banks of North Carolina as their testing ground, the Wright brotheres work on their 1901 glider in a makeshift wooden shack constructed to protect them, and it, from the elements.
Photo: Library of Congress
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