So Leonardo da Vinci had plans to test a flying machine on Monte Ceceri in Italy. There is some disagreement about whether any actual tests happened. But we know he wanted to because he wrote a bunch about it (some of that got rolled into the Civilization VI theme song). In particular, this piece of writing:
"From the mountain, which bears the name of the great bird, the famous bird will take flight, filling the world of his great fame."
In the original Italian, there's apparently a bit of a pun in there: Monte Ceceri is named after the swans that used to frequent its slopes. Da Vinci was really tickled with the idea of a little bird being launched off a big bird.
Why do I mention this?
Kitty Hawk is an English bastardization of an Algonquin word. Also represented as "Chickahawk."
In Algonquin: "A place to hunt geese."
History has a weird way of rhyming. Leo had the right idea; wrong bird.