Golden Age of Aviation Flashcards
Lindbergh’s Goodwill Tour
Newest Equipment?
1927
Guggenheim Fund
The Pioneer Earth Inductor Compass - had generator, reacted to magnetic fields
Japanese General responsible for Pearl Harbor?
General Yamamoto
Who was “Wrong Way” Corrigan?
Was denied permission to cross Atlantic, Curtiss was built off of trash
Flew NY-Ireland, claimed his compass was wrong
License suspended
1st Commercial Passenger Flight?
October 1936
Pan-Am “Clipper” Ships
Crossed Pacific, stopped on Midway/Wake islands
Juan Trippe
Aviation pioneer, created charter companies
Responsible for Clipper Ships w/ Pan-Am
Jimmy Doolittle
1st to land under instrument flight
Set speed record in Gee Bee plane
1st w/ PhD in aerodynamics at MIT
First Solo Flight around the World?
1933 Wiley Post
1924 World Cruisers were first
Amelia Earhart
1st Woman to Cross Atlantic solo