• What did the Wright brothers learn from the failed flights at Kittyhawk in 1901?
• What was the importance and benefit of studying the existing scientific data?
• Why did the Wright brothers ultimately decide to discard this data?
• What limitations did the Wright brothers find in Professor Langley’s "Experiments in Aerodynamics"? What did they decide to do as a result of coming to this conclusion?
• To what did the Wright brothers attribute their ultimate success in building a "power-flyer?"

• Create a time line of the Wright Brothers’ setbacks and successes for this period. 
• Review the artifacts included in the article and present them to the class.

• Present an overview of the four flights. What did the Wright brothers do differently each time? What was the outcome of each flight? Did their flight performance improve? Why or why not?
• What personal characteristics did the Wright brothers possess? What values and attitudes did they practice? Give evidence to support your ideas.

• How did the public respond upon hearing of the Wright brothers' first successful flight? What obstacles did the Wright brothers encounter as they attempted to share their success with the public? What evidence did they have to support their claims? 

Revisit the artifacts in the exhibit, including The Airfoils, The Wallpaper Notes and The Notebooks. 

• Would you agree that this collection of tools, measurements, and drawings changed the course of aviation? If so, how? 
• What might the impact have been if the Wright brothers did not carefully record their findings? What if they had falsified their findings? What if they had accepted the widely held beliefs at the time, instead of testing their own theories?