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Let’s Fly, Wilbur and Orville

By Peter and Connie Roop

1. True or False Wilbur and Orville were brothers.

2. True or False Wilbur and Orville’s parents did not

encourage their curiosity and let them take things apart.

3. When Orville was old enough for kindergarten, he did not

lot going to school so ______________________________________

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4. Circle all of the chores Orville and Wilbur did in order to

earn money as children.
A. newspaper delivery boy
B. shoveling coal
C. drying dishes
D. planting a garden
E. chopping wood
F. collected animal bones to sell

5. True or False Wilbur and Orville were both wise

with their money and saved all of it.

6. When Orville and Wilbur were teenagers they worked

hard too. They had jobs making and selling ____________,
making ______________ out of tar and sugar, and becoming
printers using their own wood cuts.

7. Do you think that Wilbur and Orville were the type of men
who would give up easily when they ran into problems?
Why?
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8. Orville and Wilbur started a business, as adults, making

and selling __________________. This was the business they
ran while they designed and created their first flying
machine.

9. Why do you think they kept that business open when they
really wanted to create a flying machine?
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10. What city did they decide to fly their first flying
machines?
A. Houston
B. Cincinati
C. Kitty Hawk
D. Richmond

11. The Wright brothers thought that if they created a wind

tunnel it would help them solve their flying problems.
Describe what a wind tunnel looks like and how they made it.
You can draw a picture if you want.

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12. True or False Having a motor on their flying
machine didn’t matter at all, they just wanted to fly short
distances for a few seconds anyway.

13. Do you think being creative kids and ambitious

teenagers helped the Wright brothers invent the first flying
machine? Why?
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