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Up in the Air:
The Story of the Wright Brothers
Chapter Eleven: Confidence and Doubt (October 1900 - August 1901)
Wilbur and Orville are back in Dayton after testing a glider at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
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2. Octave Chanute spread the news of the Wright Brothers´ accomplishments to correspondents around the world. Today´s News-Journal contains news from many other countries, too. Make a list of all the datelines (the place where a news story was written) that appear in the A and B sections of one edition of The News-Journal. Test yourself, your friends and family to see how many of these places you can locate.
ON THE WEB: Not within a Thousand Years -- The Wright brothers returned to North Carolina in July, 1901. They made their camp in Kill Devil Hills, rather than Kitty Hawk, as they found the large hills there more congenial to flight tests than the beaches of Kitty Hawk. The glider was an enlarged version of the 1900 glider. The wings were 22´ wide and 7´ deep, and offered more than 300 square feet of lifting surface to the stiff Outer Bank winds.
ON THE WEB: Wright Brothers Collection -- Wright Brothers Collection, Newspaper Clippings
Serial Story: UP IN THE AIR -- The 18-part serial story ran in the Daytona Beach News-Journal each Monday from January 13 through May 19 (except for April 14). Text and illustrations for the serial copyright © 2003 by Brian Floca. Sponsored in part by Inventing Flight, Dayton, Ohio. Reprinted by permission of Breakfast Serials, Inc. www.breakfastserials.com.
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