Milton Wright bought his sons a toy helicopter powered by rubber bands.
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True
Most attention at the time was on hot-air balloons and gliders.
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False
The Wright brothers thought the Flyer was unstable and difficult to control.
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True
Their first flying machine, the Flyer, took off in December 1903.
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False
The Wright brothers’ first interest in flight came from reading books.
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True
Orville and Wilbur Wright were not interested in flight when they were children.
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False
The Wright brothers built a wind tunnel to test different wing and tail shapes.
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True
The Flyer III flew about 39 km in 39 minutes on October 5th, 1905.
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False
The Flyer’s first flight lasted about 5 minutes.
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False
Otto Lilienthal and Octave Chanute influenced the Wright brothers’ work.
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True
The Wright brothers only studied books and never experimented with kites.
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False
The Wright brothers perfected their plane immediately after the first flight.
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False