Corner of Kitty Hawk Drive and Lindbergh Close, Newport
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Corner of Kitty Hawk Drive and Lindbergh Close, Newport
Image: © Jaggery Taken: 10 Aug 2011
Located in an area of housing on the south side of Somerton Road where street names have a 'pioneers of aviation' theme. Kitty Hawk, a small town in North Carolina, became famous after the Wright brothers used a site 6km from the town to make their first controlled powered aeroplane flights on December 17, 1903. Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974) achieved worldwide fame in 1927 after his solo non-stop flight from Long Island, New York to Le Bourget Field in Paris, a distance of nearly 3,600 statute miles (5,800 km), in the single-seat, single-engine monoplane Spirit of St. Louis.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.57881
Longitude
-2.962514