Thirteen Ed Online - Up, Up, and Away

		Focus Questions Sheet Up, Up, and Away Since the beginning of recorded history, people have been fascinated with the possibility of human flight. Leonardo Da Vinci, the great Renaissance artist and inventor, dreamed of a human flying machine. It was not until the late 1900s, however, that people finally achieved sustained human-powered flight. Your Challenge: Conduct a Web search to discover how and by whom human-powered flight was achieved. Use the following Web sites in your research: NASA Homepage http://www.nasa.gov Ames Research Center http://www.arc.nasa.gov/aboutames.cfm Spacelink http://spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov Smithsonian Air and Space Museum http://www.nasm.edu/ Answer the following questions based on your research: 1. What was the name of the first sustained human-powered aircraft? 2. How was thrust created in the aircraft? 3. What materials were used in the construction of the aircraft? Why were they selected? 4. Where did the power for flight come from? 5. How was lift created by the first aircraft?