Da Vinci
A famous painting done by Da Vinci
The Mona Lisa
Passing through the air on wings
Flight
Where Daedalus & Icarus were in prison
Crete
Made wings out of feathers & beeswax
Daedalus & Icarus
An aircraft that gets its lift from spinning blades
Helicopter
A device intended to slow a fall from an aircraft or a high place
Parachute
Where the Wright Brothers made the first flight
North Carolina
Saw men attached to kites to see the enemy
Marco Polo
A light aircraft without an engine
Glider
A light framework covered with paper or cloth, designed to be flown in the air
Kite
They invented the kite
The Chinese
First known human to attempt flight
Armen Firman
An aircraft that flaps its wings like a bird
Ornithopter
Explosive used to shoot projectiles from guns
Gunpowder
Daniel Bernoulli's birthplace
Netherlands (Holland, Dutch)
First man to successfully fly an airplane
Orville Wright
Why he wrote backwards
He was lefthanded and ink smudged easily
The society of military flyers
Order of Daedalians
Where you can see the Wright Flyer
National Air & Space Museum, Washington DC
Col Pfaff's cat is named
Bart