History of aviation

Question 1

When was the first unmanned flight

Answer 1

19 sep 1783 (balloon)

Question 2

When was the first manned flight

Answer 2

21 nov 1783 (balloon)

Question 3

What as the first fully controllable free flight aircraft

Answer 3

La France airship 1884

Question 4

Who was Lawrence Hargrave

Answer 4

Aussie dude who studied aerofoils and worked on the rotary engine

Question 5

What did Samuel Langley do

Answer 5

first successful sustained flight of an engine driven heavier than air aircraft (UNPILOTED)

Question 6

Who did the first sustained, controlled, powered heavier-than-air manned flight

Answer 6

The wright brothers (17 dec 1903) (Orville)

Question 7

Who flew the first flight in Australia

Answer 7

Colin Defries (1909)

Question 8

Who invented the aileron

Answer 8

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 9

What did Glenn H Curtiss do

Answer 9

Was basically the first to do everything in terms of selling and building aircraft

Question 10

Who were the three guys responsible for Lockheed-Martin

Answer 10

Glenn L. Martin, Allan & Malcolm Loughead

Question 11

Who conducted the first dual pilot cotrolled flight

Answer 11

Allan Lougheed (ailerons) and George Gates (rudders and elevators)

Question 12

When did William Boeing build his company’s first aircraft

Answer 12

1916

Question 13

When and how was McDonnel Douglas formed

Answer 13

Douglas Aircraft company and McDonnell aircraft merged in 1967

Question 14

When was the Cessna 172 first released, and how many were built

Answer 14

1956, 43000 ac

Question 15

What did Igor Sikorsky do

Answer 15

DESIGNED and FLEW the first multi-engine fixed wing aircraft (1913) and the first airliner (1914)

Question 16

Describe the first international flight

Answer 16

Calais (France) to Dover (England) 25th July 1909

Question 17

Describe the first trans-continental flight

Answer 17

17 sep-5 nov 1911 from NY to CA

Question 18

Describe the first scheduled passenger flight service

Answer 18

1914, St Petersburg to Tampa

Question 19

Describe the first schedules international flight service

Answer 19

1920, Florida and Cuba (Aeromarine West Indies Airways)

Question 20

Who accomplished the first round-the-world flight

Answer 20

Wiley Post in 1933

Question 21

What was the first commercially successful airliner and when did it enter service

Answer 21

Douglas DC-3 1936

Question 22

What was the first commercial jet airliner

Answer 22

de Havilland Comet (1949)

Question 23

When was the Concorde first flight and service entry date

Answer 23

1969, 1976

Question 24

When was Qantas formed

Answer 24

1920 (16th Nov)

Question 25

in 1925 how were airlines paid to carry airmail

Answer 25

paid by number of letters carried

Question 26

In 1926 how were airlines paid to carry airmail

Answer 26

paid by the weight of the airmail they carried

Question 27

what did the Air Mail Act of 1930 do

Answer 27

encouraged airlines to upgrade to larger capacity and technologically advanced aircraft (because rates were paid through space or volume (bigger aircraft=more volume))

Question 28

What did the Chicago Conference do

Answer 28

Basically standardised things internationally in terms of airspace, documentation and ATC rules

Question 29

When was the RFDS established

Answer 29

1928

Question 30

What happened in 1989 in Australia

Answer 30

Pilot’s dispute

Military had to help out with civil service cuz other pilots were making a fuss

Question 31

When did deregulation occur in Australia and what does it do to the market

Answer 31

1990, allows new players to enter the market

Question 32

What did deregulation do for the australian market

Answer 32

allowed new players to join in and low cost carriers emerged

Question 33

What was the two airline policy

Answer 33

Basically airlines had to be identical to each other

Question 34

Would business carriers work in Australia

Answer 34

evidence shows that no, generally not