History
The two brothers who built the first successful airplane were Orville and Wilbur _____.
Who are the Wright brothers?
Birds, gliders, and airplanes do this through the air.
What is "fly"?
Strong moving air that gave the wings lift and helped camp life feel cold.
What is wind (or breeze)?
The US state where Orville and Wilbur Wright had their home and bicycle business.
What is Ohio?
Very small grains of rock found on the beaches and dunes of Kitty Hawk.
What is sand?
Before they made airplanes, the brothers worked in a shop fixing these two-wheeled vehicles.
What are bicycles?
Orville did this action with his hands and legs to get up into the flyer.
What is "climb" (climbed)?
The motor that burns gasoline to produce power for the flyer.
What is an engine?
The small, quiet coastal village where the brothers did their flight tests.
What is Kitty Hawk?
The hard surface of the earth where people walk and stand.
What is the ground?
The first powered flight happened in December of this year: 1913, 1903, or 1923?
What is 1903?
A two-word phrasal verb that means the plane leaves the ground and starts to fly: _____ off.
What is "lift off"?
This word means how fast or slow an object is moving.
What is speed?
The southern US state where Kitty Hawk and the Outer Banks are located.
What is North Carolina?
A piece of equipment with moving parts that uses power to do work.
What is a machine?
The very first flight in the morning was short; it stayed in the air for this many seconds.
What is 12 seconds?
A 6-letter verb starting with L that means to send a glider into the air from a hill.
What is "launch?"
The flight covered 120 feet; this word means the physical space between two points.
What is distance?
A raised, high area of land where the brothers launched gliders: Kill Devil _____.
What is Hill?
To steer or direct an airplane so it goes exactly where you want it to go.
What is (to) control?
Later in the afternoon, Wilbur flew the airplane for almost this long: one minute or one hour?
What is nearly one minute (59 seconds)?
To go from one place to another place across a long distance.
What is "travel"?
The spinning wooden blades that pushed the air to drive the plane forward.
What are propellers?
Kitty Hawk has wide beaches right next to this massive body of salt water.
What is the ocean (Atlantic Ocean)?
An act of traveling from one place to another over a long period of time.
What is a journey?