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Page 34 - shelby shopper & info - 704/484-1047 For The Young & The Young At Heart! KIDS KIDS KORNER KORNER AVIATOR CHALLENGE There have been many famous names in the history of aviation. How much do you know about them? Take this quiz and find out. 1) Orville and Wilbur Wright invented the first hot air balloon. Fact or Fiction? 2) Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly across the English Channel. Fact or Fiction? 3) Bessie Colemen was the first African-American woman to get a pilot’s license. Fact or Fiction? CROS CROSSWORD ORD 4) Charles E. Yeager was the first to fly solo around the world. Fact or Fiction? 5) Charles Lindbergh was the first to fly solo across the Atlantic. Fact or Fiction? 6) Howard Hughes ran an important aviation manufacturing company. Fact or Fiction? 7) Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager were the first to fly around the world nonstop without refueling. Fact or Fiction? 8) Louis Bleriot was the first to fly an airship to and from St. Cloud, going around the Eiffel Tower. Fact or Fiction? 9) Douglas “Wrong Way” Corrigan was known for his aerial stunts in the 1920s. Fact or Fiction? 10) Jean Gardner Batten set several individual flight distance records in the 1930s. Fact or Fiction? What Rhymes with… List 10 words that rhyme with “soar.” 1. ______________ 2. _______________ 3. ______________ 4. ______________ 5. _______________ 6. ______________ 7. ______________ 8. _______________ 9. ______________ 10. _____________ COLORING COLORING www.shelbyinfo.com Thursday, September 9-September 15, 2010 WORD SEARCHORD SEARCH ANSWER KEYS: Some answers: bore, chore, door, floor, lore, more, oar, pore, roar, score Answers: 1) Fiction, Joseph-Michael and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier invented it; the Wright brothers made flyers, 2) Fiction, Harriet Quimby was the first woman to do so; Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, 3) Fact, 4) Fiction, Wiley Post was the first to do so; Yeager was the first to fly faster than the speed of sound, 5) Fact, 6) Fact, 7) Fact, 8) Fiction, Alberto Santos-Dumont was the first to do so; Bleriot was the first to fly a heavier-than-air craft across the English Channel, 9) Fiction, Clyde “Upside- Down” Pangborn was known for this; Corrigan was known for a navigation error, flying from New York to Ireland instead of California, where he was supposed to go, 10) Fact