History of Aviation

Question 1

Started the Idea of Flight

Answer 1

Daedalus and Icarus, Early Experimentation

Question 2

Kitty Hawk Flyer, (crashed, 12 second flight)

Answer 2

Wilbur and Orville Wright, PF & EG

Question 3

!st machine gun aircraft

Answer 3

Roland Garros WW!

Question 4

1st all metal monoplane

Answer 4

Hugo Junkers WW1

Question 5

1st world aircraft company

Answer 5

Charles and Gabriel Voisin PF & EG

Question 6

Sea planes and other aircrafts

Answer 6

Glenn Curtiss PF & EG

Question 7

Father of Aerodynamics and Aerial NAvigation, 1st glider

Answer 7

George Cayley EE

Question 8

1st militaryplane in Army Signal Corps

Answer 8

Wright Brothers PF & EG

Question 9

semi rigid dirigible airship

Answer 9

Paul Haenlein EE

Question 10

“dirigible” means “controllable”

Answer 10

Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin EE

Question 11

Father of Gliders

Answer 11

Otto Lilienthal EE

Question 12

Studied Lilienthal’s work - biplane glider

Answer 12

Octave Chanute EE

Question 13

Aerodrome

Answer 13

Samuel P. Langley EE

Question 14

1st free flight in artificial device

Answer 14

Jean F. Pilatre de Rozier and Marquis d’ Arlandes

Question 15

1st atempt loops

Answer 15

Lincoln Beachey PF & EG

Question 16

1st inside loop (upside down)

Answer 16

Adolph Pegoud PF & EG

Question 17

French Clockmaster; torpedo shaped air ship

Answer 17

Henri Giffard EE

Question 18

birds match, heart rate to 800 beats/min

Answer 18

Giovanni Borelli

Question 19

Ornithopter- FAILED

Answer 19

Leonardo da Vinci

Question 20

1st airborne passengers, sheep goat and duck.Human?

Answer 20

Montgolfier Brothers, Laurent RoZier

Question 21

perfected placing guns in air craft

Answer 21

Germans

Question 22

route at night –possible

Answer 22

Beacons (1921) GOAI

Question 23

Designed the first jet engine

Answer 23

Frank Whittle WWII

Question 24

1st to go to war with Jets

Answer 24

Germans

Question 25

500 miles per/h BRITISH AIRWAYS

Answer 25

De Havilland Comet

Question 26

non stop US to UK, awarded what?

Answer 26

Medal of Honor, Charles Lind berg

Question 27

transcontinental flight

Answer 27

Galbraith Rogers GOAI

Question 28

France to English Channel, biplane to monoplane

Answer 28

Louis Bleroit GOAI

Question 29

first to fly at night

Answer 29

Henri Farmann GOAI

Question 30

1st Airmail service

Answer 30

Henry Ford GOAI

Question 31

Perfected jet engine 1st twin Jet

Answer 31

Hans VOn Ohain TNI

Question 32

1st Autogiro, predecessor of helicopter: rotor wing

Answer 32

Juan de la Cierva

Question 33

WW planes converted for civilian use

Answer 33

Henry and MAurice Farman GOAI

Question 34

aid navigation when visibility is poor

Answer 34

radio TNI

Question 35

1st aircraft to enable airlines to make money in carrying passengers

Answer 35

DC-3 TNI

Question 36

1ST Supersonic rocket powered airplane

Answer 36

Bell X-1 WWII

Question 37

rearward channeled explosion - propel engine forward at great speed

Answer 37

The Jet Engine WWII

Question 38

1st pressurized aircraft

Answer 38

Stratoliner TNI

Question 39

created Civil Aeronautics Authority

Answer 39

The 1938 Civil Aeronautics Act TNI

Question 40

airmail (government- private sector)

Answer 40

GOAI Contract Airmail act of 1925 (Kelly air Act)

Question 41

$100 000 for experimental

Answer 41

Air Mail (US) GOAI

Question 42

sustain flight

Answer 42

Aircraft

Question 43

sustain aerodynamic action

Answer 43

Airplane

Question 44

science & practice of flight heavier than aircrafts

Answer 44

Aviation

Question 45

Radar early warning of approaching enemy

Answer 45

British

Question 46

distinguish enemy from ally aircraft

Answer 46

Americans