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Comprehension Questions


Chapter 3: Four Years to Flight: 1900

Directions: After reading chapter 3, Four Years to Flight: 1900, answer each question using complete sentences. Back up your answers by using information from the book.

1. What did Octave Chanute believe about progress in the quest for flight?

2. How did the Brothers decide to pick Kitty Hawk as their test site?

3. What did their first tests at Kitty Hawk reveal to them?

4. How did they solve the problem of the changing center of air pressure?

5. How did they lower the wind resistance of their aircraft?

6. What did they do with the glider after the trials were over and before they left for home?

7. Why do you think that the brothers did not want Chanute to write about their work in his articles?


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