Hello Wonder!
1. Which great Italian artist also designed flying machines?
2. What is an ornithopter?
3. Name one of the animals that flew in the first hot air balloon?
4. Name a bird that is not able to fly
5. What was the surname of the American brothers – Wilbur and Orville – who successfully flew the first plane with a petrol engine?
6. Which body of water did the French engineer Louis Bleirot manage to fly across?
7. At what height do jet-engine planes normally fly?
8. Name of the supersonic plane that could cross the Atlantic in three hours?
9. How many passengers can fit into an Airbus A380?
10. What shape could planes of the future be?
Extensions
1. Which force needs to be overcome to fly?
2. Where would you most like to fly to?
3. To fly or to be invisible: which superpower would you prefer to have?
Please email your answers to henrietta@wonderaudio.co.uk