Wright Brothers
The Wright brothers became interested in flying because of a small ______ their father gave them.
toy
Leonardo da Vinci made over 6,000 pages and 500 ______ about flight.
drawings
Before the first successful flight became possible, many men had tried to fly like ____.
birds
7. After its first flights, the 1903 airplane never flew again because it was badly ______.
A) lost
B) damaged
C) sold
damaged
He studied how birds and ______ move in the air.
bats
Before his flight in 875 CE, Ibn Firnas designed wings covered in ______.
feathers
The brothers flipped a ______ to decide who would fly first and test their Wright Flyer.
coin
His flying machine could ______ into the air and then come back down slowly.
ascend
In 875 CE, Ibn Firnas jumped from a high wall in Cordoba, the country of ____.
Spain
3. Before building airplanes, the brothers had a ______ business.
A) car
B) bicycle
C) shoe
bicycle
Leonardo da Vinci studied the ______ that affect objects in the air.
forces
Ibn Farnas hurt his back because he forgot to include a _____ in his design.
tail
One piece of the Wright brothers’ airplane was taken to the ______ by Neil Armstrong.
moon
Long before Veranzio designed his ______in 1595, da Vinci had drawn a sketch of one.
parachute
Before any of the flying machines were invented people had been trying to fly by jumping from high places like ______, walls and cliffs.
towers