Expanding and Demonstrating Your Knowledge of Flight

Team Exercise Write a news story about one of the famous events/people that you learned about yesterday Your story must answer the basic questions of: –Who –What –When –Where –Why You may embellish the story as shown in the example of Icarus and Daedalus, but the essential facts must be true. Include a headline All members of the Team MUST contribute

Escape Plan Ends in Death AP Correspondent Officials say a father and son made a daring escape attempt from the prison fortress on the Isle of Crete in the Mediterranean Sea yesterday. The prisoners, Daedalus and his son Icarus, had been incarcerated on unknown charges for many months. Witnesses stared in disbelief as the pair flew effortlessly over the high prison walls on wings that resembled those of a large bird. Their efforts were thwarted however, when the wings of the younger man came apart at a very great height and he fell to his death. The father, Daedalus, returned to the earth and knelt over his son’s broken body. He sobbed heavily as he repeatedly said, “I told him not to fly so high… the sun, the heat of the sun melted the wax.” Apparently, the two had been planning the escape for some time and prison guards said they had accumulated a large number of feathers from the sea birds that roost nearby. Examination of the wings revealed an intricately woven pattern of feathers held together by candle wax. A professor in the Greek city of Athens discounted the reports. He is quoted as saying “It is impossible for a man to fly.” But other reports from Arabian countries tell of magical flying carpets that can whisk travelers off to foreign lands at speeds exceeding a galloping horse.

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“Flying Machine Soars 3 Miles in Teeth of High Wind Over Sand Hills and Waves at Kitty Hawk on Carolina Coast “Steadily it pursued its way, first tacking to port, then to starboard, and then driving straight ahead. “ ‘It’s a success,’ declared Orville Wright to the crowd on the beach after the first mile had been covered. “But the inventor waited. Not until he had accomplished three miles, putting the machine through all sorts of maneuvers en route, was he satisfied. “Then he selected a suitable place to land, and gracefully circling drew his invention slowly to earth, where it settled, like some big bird, in the chosen spot. “ ‘Eureka,’ he cried, as did the alchemists of old.” —Virginian-Pilot, December 18, 1903

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