Kitty Hawk
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Kitty Hawk or Kittyhawk may refer to:
Places
Airlines
Military
Computers
Other
Places
- Kitty Hawk, North CarolinaKitty Hawk, North CarolinaKitty Hawk is a town in Dare County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 3,000 at the 2000 census. It was established in the early 18th century as Chickahawk....
- Kitty Hawk, is an area of Wright-Patterson Air Force BaseWright-Patterson Air Force BaseWright-Patterson Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base in Greene and Montgomery counties in the state of Ohio. It includes both Wright and Patterson Fields, which were originally Wilbur Wright Field and Fairfield Aviation General Supply Depot. Patterson Field is located approximately...
- Kitty Hawk Air Society, an Honor Society for the Air Force Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps program
Airlines
- Kitty Hawk AircargoKitty Hawk AircargoKitty Hawk Aircargo was an American cargo airline based on the grounds of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and in Grapevine, Texas, USA. It operated domestic scheduled overnight freight services, as well as air charter services...
, an American cargo airline based in Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Texas - Kitty Hawk AirwaysKitty Hawk AirwaysKitty Hawks Airways was founded in 1978, and offered passenger service that year only. It was based at Dallas Love Field near Dallas in Dallas County, Texas....
, an American airline based at Dallas Love Field in Dallas, Texas
Military
- USS Kitty HawkUSS Kitty HawkTwo ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Kitty Hawk: was a cargo ship and aircraft transport that served during World War II was the lead ship of the Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carriers, and was in commission between 1961 and 2009...
, ships of the United States Navy - Kittyhawk is an alternate name for US World War II fighter aircraft, the Curtiss P-40 (variants D, E, F, K, L, M and N)
Computers
- IBM KittyhawkIBM KittyhawkKittyhawk is a new theoretical IBM supercomputer. The proposed project entails constructing a global-scale shared supercomputer capable of hosting the entire Internet on one platform as an application, whereas the current Internet is a collection of interconnected computer networks.In 2010 IBM...
, 2008 supercomputer designed by IBM to run entire Internet. - HP Kittyhawk microdriveHP Kittyhawk microdriveHewlett-Packard HP3013/3014, nicknamed Kittyhawk, was a hard disk drive introduced by Hewlett-Packard in June 1992.It was the first ever commercially produced hard drive in a 1.3 inch form factor. The original implementation had the capacity of 20 MB. A 40 MB model called Kittyhawk II was...
, hard disk drive made by Hewlett Packard
Other
- Kitty Hawk Middle School, in the Judson Independent School District in Universal City, Texas
- Kitty Hawk is the US Secret Service codenameSecret Service codenameThe United States Secret Service uses code names for U.S. presidents, first ladies, and other prominent persons and locations. The use of such names was originally for security purposes and dates to a time when sensitive electronic communications were not routinely encrypted; today, the names...
for Queen Elizabeth II - Kitty Hawk was the callsign of the Command Module of the Apollo 14Apollo 14Apollo 14 was the eighth manned mission in the American Apollo program, and the third to land on the Moon. It was the last of the "H missions", targeted landings with two-day stays on the Moon with two lunar EVAs, or moonwalks....
spacecraft - Kittyhawk, the creator of Sparkling Generation Valkyrie YuukiSparkling Generation Valkyrie YuukiSparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki is a webcomic by Kittyhawk. It won a Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards for "Best Superhero Comic" in 2004 and was nominated in again in 2005 and 2006. This category was eliminated in 2008...
- The Wright FlyerWright FlyerThe Wright Flyer was the first powered aircraft, designed and built by the Wright brothers. They flew it four times on December 17, 1903 near the Kill Devil Hills, about four miles south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, U.S.The U.S...
airplanes