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Early History of Flight

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Avis means

a)

the action of doing something

b)

bird

c)

plane

d)

flight

2.

What if the first recorded attempt of heavier-than-air flight?

a)

Abbas ibn Firnas

b)

Wright Brothers

c)

Icarus

d)

Lu Ban

3.

Who is credited with inventing the kite?

a)

Abbas ibn Firnas

b)

Wright Brothers

c)

Lu Ban

d)

Langley

4.

Who claimed to use a kite to help steal gold from a castle?

a)

Lu Ban

b)

Ishikawa Goemon

c)

Abbas ibn Firnas

d)

Sir Cayley

5.

What kind of kite did Alexander Graham Bell invent in 1907?

a)

hexagonal

b)

tetrahedral

c)

cubic

d)

dragonfly

6.

Who is referred to as the "father of aeroplanes"?

a)

Lu Ban

b)

Wright Brothers

c)

Sir George Cayley

d)

Samuel Langley

7.

What device did Sir Cayley invent to help him test his wings?

a)

wind tunnel

b)

whirling arm test rig

c)

a large hill

d)

he didn't invent anything

8.

Who invented the first craft able to sustain engine-driven flight without a pilot?

a)

Sir Cayley

b)

Samuel Langley

c)

Wright Brothers

d)

Daedalus

9.

What war encouraged the U.S. government to grant Langley money to further his airplane research?

a)

Revolutionary War

b)

Civil War

c)

Spanish-American War

d)

World War I

10.

What device did the Wright brothers build to help them test their wings and gliders?

a)

whirling arm gig

b)

a large hill

c)

wind tunnel

d)

they didn't build anything

11.

Who built a new motor for the Wright Brothers to use in their airplane?

a)

Charlie Taylor

b)

Samuel Langley

c)

George Cayley

d)

Wilbur Wright

12.

Which brother won the rights to the first attempt at powered flight in 1903?

a)

Wilbur Wright

b)

Orville Wright

13.

Which brother actually flew in the first sustained, controlled, powered, heavier-than-air flight?

a)

Wilbur Wright

b)

Orville Wright

14.

What state did the Wright Brothers complete their flight of the Wright Flyer I in?

a)

North Carolina

b)

South Carolina

c)

Ohio

d)

Georgia

15.

What magazine provided an award for continued experimentation in aeronautics?

a)

Scientific American

b)

Discovery

c)

National Geographic

d)

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