A. reached B. revealed C. art D. experiments E. repeated F. floated G. print H. laid I. safely J. across K. covered L. lying M. footsteps N. through O. flew On Dec.17, 1903, Orville Wright, an American, flew safely in a heavier-than-air machine for 12 seconds. He and his brother Wilbur had made a lot of (1) _______ and had taken immense trouble to study the (2) ______ of flying in gliders before they attempted to fly their aeroplane. Orville came down (3) _________ after the first short flight, and on the same day the experiment was (4) _____ three times. The longest of these flights (5) _______ a distance of 852 feet and lasted 59 seconds. The machine which was used had an engine developing only sixteen horse-power but the aeroplane (6) ______ a speed of 35 miles an hour. The two brothers continued their experiment after their first success, and in 1908 Wilbur gave some exhibition of flying in France which astonished all who saw them. The Wright brothers (7) ________ the foundation of modern flying. Soon others followed in their (8) ________. Louis Bleriot, a Frenchman, flew (9) _______ the English Channel from Calais to Dover in 1909. Prizes were offered for the Wrights from one place to another. Competition increased. The aeroplane improved more and more as its behavior became better understood. More powerful engines were developed. In 1919 Sir John Alcook and Sir Arthur Brown made the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, and in the same year an aeroplane (10) _______ from England to Australia. The age of air travel had arrived.