Wright Brothers
Leonardo da Vinci
Early Human Flight
100

The Wright brothers became interested in flying because of a small ______ their father gave them.

toy

100

Leonardo da Vinci made over 6,000 pages and 500 ______ about flight.

drawings


100

Before the first successful flight became possible, many men had tried to fly like ____.

birds

200

7. After its first flights, the 1903 airplane never flew again because it was badly ______.

A) lost
B) damaged
C) sold

damaged

200

He studied how birds and ______ move in the air.

bats

200

Before his flight in 875 CE, Ibn Firnas designed wings covered in ______.

feathers

300

The brothers flipped a ______ to decide who would fly first and test their Wright Flyer.


coin

300

His flying machine could ______ into the air and then come back down slowly.

ascend

300

In 875 CE, Ibn Firnas jumped from a high wall in Cordoba, the country of ____.

Spain

400

3. Before building airplanes, the brothers had a ______ business.

A) car
B) bicycle
C) shoe

bicycle

400

Leonardo da Vinci studied the ______ that affect objects in the air.

forces

400

Ibn Farnas hurt his back because he forgot to include a _____ in his design.

tail

500

One piece of the Wright brothers’ airplane was taken to the ______ by Neil Armstrong.

moon

500

Long before Veranzio designed his ______in 1595, da Vinci had drawn a sketch of one.

parachute

500

Before any of the flying machines were invented people had been trying to fly by jumping from high places like ______, walls and cliffs.

towers