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Beginner Activities: Gliders

1.	For thousands of years many stories were told about people flying. (Check the correct answer.)
	True False

2.	What year did Sir George Cayley start thinking about gliding? (Check the correct answer.)
	1799 1899 1999

3.	Birds glide by keeping their wings straight out and not moving them. (Check the correct answer.)
	True False

4.	Cayley thought people could glide like birds using wooden wings. (Check the correct answer.)
	True False

5.	Otto Lilienthal helped the Wright Brothers make their airplane fly better. (Check the correct answer.)
	True False

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