Wright Brothers C2 L1

Who were Wilbur and Orville Wright

• American inventors and pioneers of aviation

• Minor footnotes in automobile history

• Nobel Prize winning chemists

• Confectioneers who inverted taffy

When did the Wright Brothers fly the fist airplane?

• 1979

• 1945

• 1865

• 1903

The Wright brothers were the first to achieve

• the commercial use of kites

• controlled and sustained flight

• the summit of Mount Everest

• the workable 10-speed bicycle

Three major challenges faced by early aviators

• how to get an airplane off the ground

• how to control the airplane once it's off the ground and flying

• once airborne, how to stay up in the air for longer periods of time

• all of the above - all three posed major challenges

The Wrights experimented with

• mind altering drugs

• kites and gliders

• voodoo magic

• laboratory rats and mice

The Wrights decided to experiment with gliders first, then worry about engines/power later

• TRUE

• FALSE

The Wrights used a new scientific method whereby

• They used big works and wrote technical stuff on the board

• They performed test on lab rats

• They wore long white lab coats and thick eyeglasses

• They applied lessons learned at each step before moving forward

The Wrights solved a nagging nose pitch problem (airplane going up & down erratically) by

• mounting an elevator in front of the airplane

• abandoning their efforts to fly

• solving a huge quadratic equation

• mounting a rudder at the back of the airplane

Most designers of the time mounted their elevator (pitch control surface) at the back of the airplane

• TRUE

• FALSE

Because of their many design innovations, history shows that the Wrights were

• obnoxious, overbearing meanies

• engineering geniuses, well ahead of their time

• corrupt and bankrupt

• better suited for knitting and needlepoint