Read this sentence from Paragraph 5 of the passage.


After this errand Katharine stopped at the telegraph office to relay the good news to Octave Chanute, an elderly flight enthusiast in Chicago who was an avid supporter of the boys.


Based on Paragraph 5, the reader can infer that Octave Chanute was MOST LIKELY

Group of answer choices

a telegraph operator.

a newspaper reporter.

an aeronautics engineer.

an instructional pilot.