USS Kitty Hawk
Two ships of the United States Navy have been named USS ''Kitty Hawk'' (after Kitty Hawk, North Carolina): * was a cargo ship and aircraft transport that served during World War II * is the lead ship of the ''Kitty Hawk''-class aircraft carriers, and was in commission between 1961 and 2009 See also * ''Kitty Hawk'' was the name of the Command Module on Apollo 14 {{DEFAULTSORT:Kitty Hawk United States Navy ship names ...
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Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
Kitty Hawk is a town in Dare County, North Carolina, Dare County, North Carolina, United States, and is a part of what is known as North Carolina's Outer Banks. The population was 3,708 at the United States Census, 2020, 2020 Census. It was established in the early 18th century as Chickahawk. History The name Kitty Hawk is derived from the native Algonquian languages, Algonquin Amerindian language word Chickahawk, meaning "a place to hunt geese". Kitty Hawk became world-famous after the Wright brothers made the first controlled powered airplane flights at Kill Devil Hills, four miles (6 km) south of the town, on December 17, 1903. After the four flights in their ''Wright Flyer'', the brothers walked back to Kitty Hawk. Here, they sent a telegram from the Weather Bureau office to their father informing him of their success. Kitty Hawk is usually credited as the site of the powered flights because it was the nearest named settlement at the time of the flight; the modern town of ...
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