The Wrights

The idea of flying an aircraft was ______ to some people.

• boring

• distasteful

• exciting

• needless

People thought that the Wright brothers had ______.

• acted without thinking

• been negatively influenced

• been too cautious

• acted in a negative way

The Wrights’ interest in flight grew into a ______.

• financial empire

• plan

• need to act

• foolish thought

Lilienthal’s idea about controlling airborne vehicles was _________ the Wrights.

• proven wrong by

• opposite to the ideas of

• disliked by

• accepted by

The old tables were _________ and replaced by the first reliable figures for air pressure on curved surfaces.

• destroyed

• invalidated

• multiplied

• approved

The Wrights designed and built their own source of _________.

• force for moving forward

• force for turning around

• turning

• force for going backward