The Wright Brothers
Orville and Wilbur, made the worlds first powered controlled flight.
Who are the Wright Brothers?
He used wings of feathers made by Daedalus to escape from Crete. He became too excited, flew too close to the sun, and ultimately fell to his death.
Who is Icarus?
Painter, sculptor, scientist, inventor, and engineer. Desired to know the secret to flight.
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?
The ability or tendency to float in water, air, or some other fluid.
What is buoyancy?
An aircraft whose flight does not depend principally on an engine.
Flight is supported by the reaction of air against its wings.
What is a glider?
Controlled by elevators, the up or down movement of the nose of the aircraft.
What is pitch?
Generation-old stories about gods, heroes, or magical beings.
Sometimes instructive, not always happy endings.
What is a Myth?
Where Leonardo Da Vinci is from.
What is Italy?
It determines whether something floats or sinks.
Definition: Mass per unit volume of a given substance
What is density?
Who is Otto Lilienthal?
Moving around a vertical axis, twisting or rotation of up to 360 degrees.
What is yaw?
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math.
Greece is the early birthplace of this.
What is STEM?
Leonardo Da Vinci's most famous painting, of a woman that has been stolen multiple times, which is the cause for it's major fame.
What is the Mona Lisa?
Principle that the buoyant force on a submerged object is equal to the weight of the fluid that is displaced by the object.
What is Archimedes Principle?
Thrust, weight, drag, and lift. First discovered by George Cayley.
What are the four forces of flight?
Where did the Wright brothers live?
Dayton, Ohio
An evil king who imprisoned Daedalus and his son.
Who is King Minos
A machine that flies by flapping wings.
What is an ornithopter?
These brothers were the first the build a successful hot air balloon.
Who were the Montgolfier Brothers?
States that an increase in the speed of a fluid occurs simultaneously with a decrease in pressure.
What is Bernoulli's Principle?
The Wright Brothers first plane
What is the Wright Flyer?
Who is Pythagoras?
Leonardo da Vinci's work that examined how birds fly and proposed mechanisms for flying.
What is the Codex on the Flight of Birds?
This is what releases air from hot air balloons to start the descent.
What are vents?
Designed and built his first glider in 1804. First to understand 4 forces of flight.
Who is George Cayley?