Aviation 2

Question 0

When was the “flying machine” patent lifted?

Answer 0

1910 bc of Glenn Curtiss

Question 1

First motorized air mail flight in the United States?

Answer 1

February 18, 1911

Question 2

First pilots license in the United States?

Answer 2

Glenn Curtiss

1910

Question 3

Harriet Quimby

Answer 3

1st U.S. woman w/ a pilots license

Question 4

Katherine Stinson

Answer 4

1st woman air mail carrier

Question 5

Louis Blériot

Answer 5

1st across English Channel in an airplane

Question 6

1st Scheduled Airline Flight

Answer 6

January 1, 1914

Question 7

Glenn Curtiss

Answer 7

Motorcycle racer & mechanic
Built the June Bug
“Father of the Naval Plane”
NC-4 1st across Atlantic

Question 8

1st powered flight

Answer 8

December 17, 1903

Orville Wright

Question 9

1st airplane fatality

Answer 9

Lieutenant T. E. Selfridge
Flying with a Wright brother
September 17, 1908

Question 10

1st woman fatality in airplane

Answer 10

Mrs. Hart O. Berg

October 1908

Question 11

Sir George Cayley

Answer 11

“Father of Aerial Navigation”
Four forces of flight
Designed a modern airplane structure on disc
Created working gliders

Question 12

Otto Lilienthal

Answer 12

Hang gliders
“Sacrifices must be made”
Death inspires Wright brothers

Question 13

Octave Chanute

Answer 13

Railroad engineer
Created gliders with two wings
Used bridge truss design

Question 14

Samuel Pierpont Langley

Answer 14

Funded by United States Congress
Failed twice - house boat with catapult
Great scientist