You Are Solving the Wrong Problem

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Across
  1. 1. an airplane on conjecture and theory without the grounding of empirical tests
  2. 2. Fidel Castro became premier (leader) of ______ in 1959.
  3. 3. MacCready built a plane with _______, aluminum tubing, and wire.
  4. 5. Paul MacCready was considered to be one of the best mechanical _______________ of the 20th century.
  5. 7. Paul MacCready stated, "The problem is we don't understand the _________.
  6. 8. In 1959, President Eisnehower made the territory a state
  7. 9. MacCready's Gossamer Condor flew 2,172 _______
  8. 11. The name of MacCready's plane that flew 2,172 meters to win the prize: The Gossamer _______.
  9. 14. The rebuild, retest, relearn ______ went from months and years to hours and days.
  10. 16. Progress was slow for obvious reasons, but that was to be expected in pursuit of such a difficult _______.
  11. 17. Henry _______ offered money to the first person to build a plane that could fly a figure eight around two markers one half-mile apart.
Down
  1. 1. Mylar is used to make ___________. (this is not in your reading passage. THINK!)
  2. 4. The amount of time people were spending on
  3. 6. The first airplane MacCready tried did not work it was too ____________.
  4. 7. Even in successful flights, a couple hundred meters latter the flight would end with the pilot __________exhausted.
  5. 10. Find a faster way to fail, recover, and ____ again.
  6. 12. In 1959, this company released the movie, Sleeping Beauty
  7. 13. When you are solving a difficult problem _____ the problem so that your solution helps you learn faster.
  8. 14. The Gossamer Albatross flew across the _______.
  9. 15. MacCready came up with a new problem. How can you build a plane that could be rebuilt in ____ not months.