Chapter 1: Introduction To Air Power Flashcards
According to legend, who built two sets of wings so he and his son could escape imprisonment?
Daedalus
Who invented gunpowder?
The Chinese
Developed first known principles of flight
Leonardo da Vinci
Who may have used man-carrying kites to spy on their enemies?
The Chinese
Invented the hot air balloon
Laurenco de Gusmano
(Jesuit priest, invented in 1709, for the king of Portugal)
The first human passengers flew on their balloon
The Montgolfier brothers
Organized the Balloon Signal Service of the Union Army
Thaddeus S.C. Lowe
Built and flew the first successful rigid dirigble, LZ-1
Ferdinand von Zeppelin
Who is called the “Father of Modern Aviation?”
Otto Lilienthal
(German engineer)
Who achieved the first success in controlled, powered, and sustained flight?
The Wright Brothers
Why was the dirigible an important improvement over the balloon?
Because it could be steered
Hydrogen, as a lifting gas in balloons, was a major advancement in ballooning because of its safety
FALSE
(because it was lighter than “Montgolfier gas”)
Three European scientists - Toricelli, von Guericke, and Pascal - learned that atmospheric pressure decreases the higher you climb
TRUE
The three basic problems of flight are
1) developing necessary lift
2) sustaining that lift
3) controlling the aircraft once it is flying
TRUE
Who said, “The whole problem is confined within these limits; namely, to make a surface support a given weight by the application of power to the resistance of air”?
George Cayley
