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    The Wright Brothers

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    The Wright Brothers, Wilbur and Orville Wright, were inventors who loved mechanics from a young age. They opened a bicycle shop in 1892 in Dayton, Ohio. Inspired by Otto Lilienthal's glider experiments, they began testing their own double-winged glider designs in 1900, building over 200 models. On December 17, 1903, the Wright Brothers conducted the first successful controlled, powered airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, flying 120 feet. They are recognized as the fathers of flight.

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    The Wright Brothers, Wilbur and Orville Wright, were inventors who loved mechanics from a young age. They opened a bicycle shop in 1892 in Dayton, Ohio. Inspired by Otto Lilienthal's glider experiments, they began testing their own double-winged glider designs in 1900, building over 200 models. On December 17, 1903, the Wright Brothers conducted the first successful controlled, powered airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, flying 120 feet. They are recognized as the fathers of flight.

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    The Wright Brothers, Wilbur and Orville Wright, were inventors who loved mechanics from a young age. They opened a bicycle shop in 1892 in Dayton, Ohio. Inspired by Otto Lilienthal's glider experiments, they began testing their own double-winged glider designs in 1900, building over 200 models. On December 17, 1903, the Wright Brothers conducted the first successful controlled, powered airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, flying 120 feet. They are recognized as the fathers of flight.

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    The Wright Brothers, Wilbur and Orville Wright, were inventors who loved mechanics from a young age. They opened a bicycle shop in 1892 in Dayton, Ohio. Inspired by Otto Lilienthal's glider experiments, they began testing their own double-winged glider designs in 1900, building over 200 models. On December 17, 1903, the Wright Brothers conducted the first successful controlled, powered airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, flying 120 feet. They are recognized as the fathers of flight.

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    The Wright Brothers

    Wilbur and Orville Wright loved to invent things. As young boys they
    made toys and kites that they sold to friends. They attended school
    regularly, but learned about science and mechanics from reading and
    working with tools. In 1892 they decided to go into business together. They
    opened a shop in Dayton, Ohio, where they rented, sold, and built bicycles.

    At about this time a man named Otto Lilienthal was working on trying to
    find a way for human beings to fly. Liliental was killed in a glider accident
    in 1896. The Wright Brothers decided to continue with his experiments of
    trying to find a way to fly.

    Wilbur and Orville Wright began to test double-winged gliders in 1900.


    They designed, built and tested over two hundred models to determine the
    best wing design. Finally they designed one on which the pilot would lie
    down flat on his stomach. They tested their design one thousand times over
    three years on the sand dunes near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. During this
    time they were becoming very good pilots.

    On December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright wheeled the new
    invention onto a beach at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Powered by a small
    engine, the airplane coasted across the sand, lifted off, and flew a total of one
    hundred and twenty feet into the air before landing.

    Orville and Wilbur Wright are remembered as the "fathers of flight." The
    beach at Kitty Hawk is a national historical monument.
    Answer the questions below

    1. Orville and Wilbur Wright flew their first airplane

    one hundred and twenty feet.

    one hundred and twenty yards.

    two hundred and twenty feet.

    2. The Wright Brothers opened a shop in 1892.

    3. Otto Liliental was killed in a accident in 1896.

    4. Kitty Hawk is in the state of .

    5. The Wright Brothers built and tested over hundred models of double-
    winged gliders.

    6. The double-winged glider carried the pilot lying flat on his .

    7. What did the Wright Brothers begin to test in 1900?


    kites

    airplanes

    double-winged gliders

    8. The Wright Brothers began to invent things

    when they were young men.


    in school.

    when they were young boys.

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