Page 234 - English Class 9

b. They had a printing business in their cycle shop.

c. The experience of cycling helped them to generate ideas for
controlling and balancing aircraft.
d. The wing warping system controls the aircraft in a roll.

e. They learned more about balancing by watching other aircraft fly.

f. Their first experimentation was with a kite.
g. Wilbur Wright was the pilot of their 1903 Flyer.

h. Their aircraft could only fly straight.

D. Put the following events from the text above in chronological order.
a. Their first Flyer took off under its own power with a pilot.

b. The Wright brothers opened a cycle shop.

c. The Wright brothers developed a machine overcoming complex
technical problems.

d. Milton Wright brought home a toy helicopter.
e. Wright brothers built their first machine designed to carry a pilot.

f. The children made copies of the toy helicopter.

g. The Wright brothers began their aeronautical research.
h. The Wright brothers started a printing business.

E. Answer the following questions.

a. What services did the Wright brothers offer from the cycle shop?

b. How did their cycle business help them to build an aircraft?
c. How did the brothers develop the idea of balance and control in
the flight of an aircraft?

d. What was their first aircraft like?
e. What did they do to create the flight conditions?

f. What is "wing warping"?
g. When and where did the first Flyer take off?

h. What progress had they made by 1904?
i. What was the world's first practical airplane like?
228 English 9