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World of Flight - Early Years of Aviation with Henry as your guide.

Questions:

1. First Aeronauts
   1. Who were the first aeronauts? What did they fly?
   2. What human made the first free flight -- how far, how high, how long?
   3. What other type of similar craft flew just two weeks after the Montgolfiers?
2. Leaders and Lunatics
   1. What was Sir George Cayley's contribution to early aviation? When did this happen?
   2. Describe two outlandish aeronautical ideas from either this page or from the "Flights of Fancy" page.
3. Lilienthal Lifts Off
   1. What was Otto Lilienthal's contribution to flight?
   2. How did he die and why?
4. Langley's Leap
   1. Summarize, in a couple of sentences, Langley's contribution to aviation? What did he do differently?
   2. What did Langely have credit for until 1948.
   3. Play "Aerial Inventors" take note of each inventor and their invention on this assignment sheet.
5. Getting it Wright
   1. Who were the Wright Brothers -- how far, how long, and when did they make their first flight?
   2. How was the Wright Flyer controlled?
   3. "The Army Takes Wing" -- how much did the Wright's sell their airplane to the army for? What is Lt. Thomas E. Selfridge famous for?
6. Across the Pond
   1. What was the first famous water crossing and who made it and when did they do it?
   2. What was the the Italian Armada?
   3. Who were "Gone Missing"? What was trying to be accomplished when they went missing?
   4. Who made the first Atlantic crossing, and the first non-stop Atlantic crossing?