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Advanced Activities: Power, the Final Ingredient

1.	The earliest recorded use of _________ in getting and object in the air was during the Greek civilization. (Check the correct answer.)
	steam power diesel

2.	The attempt took place in _____ B.C. when Heron used steam made by a boiler. (Check the correct answer.)
	300 500 700

3.	He designed a powered airplane with a retractable landing gear. (Check the correct answer.)
	Wilbur Wright Orville Wright Felix du Temple

4.	Temple's new designs helped with the progress of ___________. (Check the correct answer.)
	flight gliding power

5.	He was the first person to lift off the ground in an aircraft with power. (Check the correct answer.)
	Lilienthal Clement Ader Chanute

6.	He said, "Given the proper power and inclined at the right angle, a barn door could be made to fly". (Check the correct answer.)
	Orville Wright Felix du Temple Wilbur Wright

7.	Orville and Wilbur Wright became interested in flight as boys in _________. (Check the correct answer.)
	Ohio Carolina Oklahoma

8.	The Wright's became seriously interested in aviation when they began reading of _____________ gliding flights in Germany. (Check the correct answer.)
	Lilienthal's Chanute's Ader's

9.	The Wright Brother's invented a new wind tunnel of their own which was very helpful in the redesign of the wing. (Check the correct answer.)
	True False

10.	The Wright's were not the first in the history to build a machine which carried a man into the air in full flight. (Check the correct answer.)
	True False

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