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What was the Chinese Legend of Emperor Shun about?
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4,000 Years ago, Meperor Shun escaped from prison by "doning the work clothes of a bird".
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According to legend how did Kie Kung, the Chinese god of thunder and lighting fly?
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Using the wings of a bat.
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What was the legend of Ki-Kung-Shi?
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He flew a chariot that had no visible means of support 1800 years before Christ.
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When did the Chinese invent Gunpowder?
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900 AD
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What year where the Chinese building simple rockets?
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1100 AD
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Who made the first scientific experiments in the field of Aviation?
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Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519
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Who was a great Italian artist, architect and man of Science?
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Leonardo da Vinci
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What three things did Leonardo da Vince write about?
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The center of gravity, center of Pressure and streamlining.
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What principles are vital in designing and building modern aircraft and spacecraft?
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The center of gravity, center of pressure and streamlining.
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What is a ornithopter?
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Flying machines that are kept aloft and propelled by flapping wings.
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What three european scientists perfomed scientific studies of the atmosphere?
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Torricelli from Italy, Von Guericke from Germany and the Frechman named Pascal.
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What is a fluid?
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The atmosphere
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What does atmospheric pressure do as you climb higher?
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decrease
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What measures the pressure of the atmosphere?
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A brometer
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What allowed study a vacuum?
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the air pump
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Who wrote about the Aerial Ship?
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Francesso de Lana professor of mathematics
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What did Francesco de lana's aerial ship look like?
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It would be carried aloft by four large spheres from which all air had been removed to make them lighter than the surrounding air.
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Why wouldn't Francesco de lana's aerial ship work?
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The spheres would have been immediately crushed by the pressure of the surrounding air.
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What was the most important developpment in making the first lighter than air flight?
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cheap printing which made books available for the scientists to compare notes.
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Who is credited with inventing the hot air ballown?
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Laurenco de Gusmao.
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When was the hot air ballon demonstrated for the King of Portugal?
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1709
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Who discoved Hydrogen--flammable air?
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Henry Cavendish
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What did Dr. Joseph Black realize?
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if this light gas were enclosed in a ten bladder it would weigh less than the surrounding air and would therefore rise.
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What two brother achieved manned flight?
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Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier
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Who discovered oxygen and wrote scientific papers on the properties of air?
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Joseph Prientley
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When did the Montgolfier brothers make a public demonstration using a paper lined line?
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June 5 1783
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How far did the Montgolfiers brother balloon fly?
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6,000 feet high and traveled over a mile before landing.
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What did they call the lighter than air gas that filled the balloon from the fire.?
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Montgolfier gas
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What king did the Montgolfier brothers fly their balloon for and when?
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King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette on September 19 1783
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Who were the first men to ride in the Montgolfier balloon?
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Rilatre de Rosier and young Physican and the marquis d'Arlandes a young infantry officer.
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How long did the first maned flight last?
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25 minuets
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How are did the first manned ballon flight go?
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more than 5 miles.
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Who invented gunpowder?
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cHINESE
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What did J A C Charles develop?
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A ballon that was a small globe of rubberized silk. on Aug 23 1783 the globe was inflated with hydrogen and rose into hte air
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What became popular in Europe between 17893 and 1790?
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Balloon fights
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How long did the first maned flight last?
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25 minuets
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How far did the first manned balloon flight go?
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more than 5 miles.
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Who invented gunpowder?
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cHINESE
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What did JAC Charles develop?
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A ballown that was a small globe of rubberized silk. on Aug 23 1783 the globe was inflated with hydrogen and rose into the air
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What became popular in Europe between 1783 and 1790?
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Balloon fights
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How did the French government use balloon in 1793?
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They formed an air arm to their Army and used balloon for reconnaissance during the French Revloution.
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When was first Parchute jump from a balloon?
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1797
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What balloon became much more popular than the hot aire balloon?
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Hydrogen
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Who and when was the first balloon flight from one nation to another?
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January 7 1785 French aeronaut balloonist Jean Pierre Blanchard and an American passenger Dr. John Jeffries.
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When did the first women fly alone in a Balloon?
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Madam Jeanne-Genevieve Garnerin.
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Who was the first women who made ballooning as a career?
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Jean Blanchard's wife Madeleine Sophie Blanchard.
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Where did the first balloon light take place in the US.
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Philadelphia PA
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Who was the first women killed in a ballooning accident?
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Madam Jeanne-Genevieve Garnerin
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What president witnessed the first balloon flight in the US?
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President George Washington and thousands of spectators
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When were the first balloons used the in US military?
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During the Civil War.
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Why was hydrogen so dangerious for flying?
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It was highly flammable and many people were killer before a safer gas came into use.
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Who made several suggestions that eventually led to dirigibles?
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French general Jean Baptiste Meusnier
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What breakthough did Henri Giffard bring?
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He built a cigar-shaped dirigible 114 feet long and 39 feel in diameter. powered by 3 horsepower steam engine.
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What is generally credited as ging the first successful dirigible?
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Henri Giffard's
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Who airship was powered by electric motors?
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A C Krebs in 1884
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Who built the first dirigible powered by an internal combustion engine in 1872?
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A german engineer Paul Haenlein
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Who ushered in the era of the powered gasbag?
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Santos Dumont
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During what years did Santos-Dumont constructed and fly 14 gasoline powered non-rigid airships.?
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1898 and 1907
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In 1901 who flew his airship around the eiffel tower and and distance fo 9 miles?
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Santos Dumont
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Who built and flew the first rigid dirigible in 1900?
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Ferdinand won Qeppelin
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when did Germany start dominating rigid dirigible airships?
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1900
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What was the deutschland LZ-7?
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The world's first commercial airship flown June 22, 1910
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Who was the first airplane pioneer in the 19th century?
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a young Englishman named George Cayley.
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What three forces did Cayley identifiy?
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Life drag and thrust
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What did Cayley develope to increase life?
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the Cambered curved upper surface on a wing
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Who built the first manned aircraft to take off from level ground under its own power?
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Clement Ader
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What looked like a huge bat?
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The first manned airacraft to take off from level ground under its own power
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What hapend in the second half of the 19th century?
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flying became very popular and many people tried designing gliders and airplanes.
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What three men made signigicant progress to real gliding?
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an american John J Montgomery and German Otto Lilieenthal and a French-born American Octave Chanute
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Who was John Montogomery?
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He built many gliders from 1884 to 1905 when he unveiled his glider to the public
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What was Montgomery first public flight in 195 like?
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Daniel Maloney flew the glider. It was hooked to a balloon when it got to 4000 feet he and cut it loose and flew for 20 minuets and landed safely at a pre selected spot.
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How did Montogomery die?
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Landing his glider a gust of wind flipped it and hurled him to his deathe 1911
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Who was the father of Modern Aviation?
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Otto Lilienthal
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What did Otto Lilienthal build?
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Many single and two winged gliders
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How many gliders did otto lilienthal build between 1891 and 1896?
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over 2000
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When did lilienthal explore powered flights?
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1896
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How were the controls worked in Lilienthal's first powered air plane?
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by a headband on the chin
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How did Lilienthal die?
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He flew an older biplane glider one last time to practice with the new elevation controls. He took off in a gusty wind at 50 feet his glider stalled and suddently dropped like a rock. He broke his back.
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What american civil engineer ready Lilienthal's workes and started disigning gliders?
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octave Chanute
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What two Englishmen drew up plans and received a patent for a man carrying powered aircraft named the Ariel but was never built?
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W S Henson and inventor and John Stringfellow a skilled engineer
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What did American Samuel Pierpont Langley do.?
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He set out to build a full size man carrying aircraft.
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What was the problem with steam engines?
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too heavy
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What airplane did Charles M Manly design and Langley developed?
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The Aerodrome and it was to be launched by catapult from a barge anchored in the potomac river.
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How will did the Aerodrome fly?
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fhe first time it fell into the potomac and the second time was the same.
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What was built like a large Kite?
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The wright brothers first airplane
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Where did the wright brothers choose try their flights
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Kitty Hawk Nother Carolina
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What did the wright brother do over the winter of 1900?
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The made a few successful glides
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Where were the wright brothers from?
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Dayton Ohio
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In September 1902 What did the wright brothers do?
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Returned to Nother Carolina with their 3rd glider
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How many glide flights did the wright brother do in September/October1902?
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Over a thousand
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By Spetember 1903 What had the wright brother done?
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the engine had been installed in their powered aircrafr anemd the flyer
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What happended on Dec 14 1903?
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The flyer became air born but stalled and fell back to the sand.
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When did the wright brothers first fly 12 seconds and 120 feel?
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December 17,1903
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What was the longest flight that the wright brother flew their first powered airplane
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59 seconds and 852 feet.
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Samuel Pierpont Langley's aircraft Aerodrome was the first airplane so successfully fly after being launched from a catapult?
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False
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