Flight

Question 1

How did people first fly?

Answer 1

In hot air balloons

Question 2

Who invented the hot air balloon, and when?

Answer 2

Montgolfier Brothers in 1783

Question 3

How did the first hot air balloons work?

Answer 3

Powered by wood fire

Went as high as 26m and as far as 8km

Question 4

What was the problem with the first hot air balloons?

Answer 4

They couldn’t be steered, and were blown by the wind

Question 5

What air transport was developed after the hot air balloon?

Answer 5

Airship in 1852

Question 6

What powered the first airship?

Answer 6

Steam

Question 7

Who made the first recorded and CONTROLLED powered flight?

Answer 7

Orville and Wilbur Wright

Question 8

When did the Wright brothers make the first flight?

Answer 8

1903

Question 9

What were planes used in World War I (1914 to 1918) made from?

Answer 9

Wood and canvas

Question 10

How had planes developed by World War II (1939 to 1945)?

Answer 10

Made from Aluminium (lighter than wood and canvas)
As a result could go faster and further
Also jet engine had been invented (1930)

Question 11

Who was the first person to fly faster thane the speed of sound, and when?

Answer 11

Chuck Yeager

1947

Question 12

When did the first spacecraft (unmaned) go into space?

Answer 12

1957 - Sputnik I (means ‘travelling mate’ in Russian)

Question 13

Who was the first person in Space, and when?

Answer 13

Yuri Gagarin (Russian)
1961

Question 14

Who was the first person on the moon?

Answer 14

American: Neil Armstrong 1969 (Apollo 11)