History Of ATC

Question 0

Describe the layout of the earliest airports

Answer 0

Large rectangular field

Question 1

Name the 1st air traffic controller in the u.s

Answer 1

Archie League (1929)

Question 2

State the location of the 1st u.s facility that was used to keep track of en-route aircraft.

Answer 2

Newark, New Jersey (1935)

Question 3

Sate the early ATC equipment that was used by personnel to keep track of aircraft.

Answer 3

Maps
Blackboards
Shrimp boats

Question 4

State the location of the 1st control tower in Canada

Answer 4

St. Hubert airport, north of Montreal

Question 5

Name the first early radar transponders used in ww2

Answer 5

IFF (identification friend or foe)

Question 6

Name the pilot and year of first international airmail flight from vancouver to Seattle

Answer 6

Bill Boeing and Eddie Hubbard - 1919

Question 7

Name and date of first powered flight

Answer 7

Orville wright -dec 17, 1903

Question 8

Name and date of first flight through Canadian Rockies

Answer 8

Earnest Hoy - 1919 (in a JN-4)

Question 9

Name and date of first powered flight in Canada

Answer 9

J.A.D mccurdy - 1909 (flying silver dart at baddeck Nova Scotia)

Question 10

First nonstop newyork to Paris

Answer 10

Charles Lindbergh - 1927

Question 11

Conducted 2000 glider flights near Berlin

Answer 11

Otto lillienthal 1891-1896

Question 12

State year trans Canada airlines came into being

Answer 12

1937

Question 13

Describe event that lead to the establishment of the federal aviation administration

Answer 13

Grand Canyon collision 1956 (united airlines dc7 and TWA super constellation)

Question 14

Explain the lighted airways system

Answer 14

51 ft beacon tower with powerful rotation light
concrete arrow on floor points to direction of flight
Emergency landing patch beside some towers

Question 15

Name aircraft used in the initial delivery of airmail in u.s

Answer 15

DH4, Curtiss Jenny JN4

Question 16

Reason for development of jeppesen chart

Answer 16

To make flying safer, record all danger and note elevation of obstructions

Question 17

State the type of airway navigation aid that replaced the lighted airway system

Answer 17

Low frequency radio