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Advanced Activities: Gliders

1.	Man had to return to his study of ________ before he could learn how to design today's aircraft. (Check the correct answer.)
	balloons birds kites

2.	Leonardo Da Vinci made the first real studies of flight in ________. (Check the correct answer.)
	1286 1386 1486

3.	He had ________ drawings that illustrated his theories on flight. (Check the correct answer.)
	350 250 150

4.	George Cayley saw that people could not fly because they didn't have enough muscle power to create lift. (Check the correct answer.)
	True False

5.	Caley turned to the invention of the _______ that had been around for study for over 2000 years. (Check the correct answer.)
	parachute kite balloon

6.	He made the first manned heavier-than-air flight in history. (Check the correct answer.)
	Cayley Da Vinci Zeppelin

7.	He was the first person to be able to show that controlled flight was possible. (Check the correct answer.)
	Lilienthal Zeppelin Cayley

8.	Hang-gliders of today are based upon ________ plans. (Check the correct answer.)
	Cayley's Lilienthal's Zeppelin's

9.	He was a champion of flight and his greatest work was as an educator. (Check the correct answer.)
	Lilienthal Cayley Chanute

10.	Chanute helped The Wright Brother's understand the principles of flight. (Check the correct answer.)
	True False

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