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Francis Rogallo, the father of hang gliding, died last week at age 97. Bruce Weaver, a manager at Kitty Hawk Kites Hang Gliding School, says without Rogallo there would likely be no hang gliding ...
The fun, well known Kitty Hawk Kites began 40 years ago on the Outer Banks, and today attracts hang gliders from all over the world. In fact, it's the world's largest hang gliding school.
This hang gliding company on the Outer Banks is celebrating 50 years. ... where the founder of Kitty Hawk Kites made the first-ever hang glider flight half a century ago.
The 52nd Hang Gliding Spectacular is May 16-19 at Jockey’s Ridge This segment of The Hampton Roads Show is sponsored by Kitty Hawk Kites. Suggest a Correction ...
Edie Holsopple of Hopewell high-fiving her Kitty Hawk Kites hang-gliding instructor Josh Mazzoni after completing a flight in August 2015 at Jockey’s Ridge State Park in Nags Head, N.C ...
Kitty Hawk kites runs the largest hang gliding school in the nation. Students learn by launching themselves from giant sand dunes. Marg Bornyase, a grandmother, is one of those students.
Panel to include:John Harris (first flight hang gliding pilot at Grandfather Mountain and founder of Kitty Hawk Kites)Catherine Morton (GMSF board member and daughter of Grandfather Mountain ...
JARVISBURG Kitty Hawk Kites plans to expand its popular hang gliding school to include grassy airstrips in Jarvisburg, where it could attract tourists from the Outer Banks and boost the local ...
In October Raffel visited the Kitty Hawk Kites hang gliding school in North Carolina and made tethered flights in the 1902 Wright Glider reproduction built by The Wright Experience for the 2003 ...
Two Outer Banks recreational institutions have reunited. The owner of Kitty Hawk Sports has sold his three retail operations to the former partner who founded the business with him more than 30 yea… ...