Golden Age of Aviation Flashcards

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Lindbergh’s Goodwill Tour

Newest Equipment?

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1927
Guggenheim Fund
The Pioneer Earth Inductor Compass - had generator, reacted to magnetic fields

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Japanese General responsible for Pearl Harbor?

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General Yamamoto

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Who was “Wrong Way” Corrigan?

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Was denied permission to cross Atlantic, Curtiss was built off of trash
Flew NY-Ireland, claimed his compass was wrong
License suspended

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1st Commercial Passenger Flight?

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October 1936
Pan-Am “Clipper” Ships
Crossed Pacific, stopped on Midway/Wake islands

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Juan Trippe

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Aviation pioneer, created charter companies

Responsible for Clipper Ships w/ Pan-Am

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Jimmy Doolittle

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1st to land under instrument flight
Set speed record in Gee Bee plane
1st w/ PhD in aerodynamics at MIT

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First Solo Flight around the World?

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1933 Wiley Post

1924 World Cruisers were first

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Amelia Earhart

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1st Woman to Cross Atlantic solo

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