History of Aviation

Question 1

Avion III Flying Machine

Answer 1

Clement Ader

Question 2

Vacuum-lifted airship

Answer 2

Francesco de Lana

Question 3

Hot air Balloon

Answer 3

Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier

Question 4

First-manned ascent

Answer 4

Francois de Pilatre de Rozier and Marquis d’Arlandes

Question 5

Hydrogen Balloon

Answer 5

Jacques Charles

Question 6

Employed as observation platforms

Answer 6

American Civil War

Question 7

Used to carry messages

Answer 7

Franco-Prussian War

Question 8

First serious practical and theoretical progress heavier-than-air flight

Answer 8

George Cayley

Question 9

Precursor of the wind tunnel

Answer 9

Whirling arm

Question 10

Made the results of “On Aerial Navigation”

Answer 10

1809-1810

Question 11

Aerial Steam Carriage

Answer 11

William Samuel Henson

Question 12

Miniature steam engine

Answer 12

Felix du Temple de la Croix

Question 13

Two-engine monoplane

Answer 13

Aleksander Mozhaiskii

Question 14

First claim to crack the problem of first powered flight

Answer 14

Clement Ader

Question 15

Prominent advocate of power-centered approach to flight

Answer 15

Sir Hiram Maxim

Question 16

Product of costly four-year project to achieve manned heavier-than-air flight

Answer 16

Great Aerodrome

Question 17

Great Aerodrome

Answer 17

Samuel Pierpoint Langley

Question 18

Great Aerodrome engineer, climbed aboard

Answer 18

Charles Manly

Question 19

First powered flight date

Answer 19

December 17, 1903

Question 20

First powered flight place

Answer 20

Kill Devil Hills, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

Question 21

First powered flight

Answer 21

Orville and Wilbur Wright

Question 22

Golden age of aviation

Answer 22

1920s and 1930s

Question 23

Douglas aircraft company

Answer 23

General Billy Mitchell

Question 24

First round-the-world flight

Answer 24

Douglas World Cruisers

Question 25

Sent two junkers G24s, state-of-theart all-metal trimotor monoplanes, on a 10,000 km flight

Answer 25

Deutsche Luft Hansa

Question 26

First public display of a hot air balloon (date)

Answer 26

June 1783

Question 27

Aerial Steam Carriage (Year)

Answer 27

1843

Question 28

Miniature Steam Engine (year)

Answer 28

1850s

Question 29

Lilienthal designed and built 16 gliders (Year)

Answer 29

Between 1891-1896

Question 30

Great Aerodrome Charles Manly (Year)

Answer 30

October 7, 1903

Question 31

First round the world flight (Year)

Answer 31

April 1924

Question 32

Lufthansa (Year)

Answer 32

July and August 1926