L17 The Dream of Fight

Question 1

inventor of aircraft

Answer 1

No body ‘invented’ aircraft - it was work of many inventors/scientists

Question 2

the first to fly

Answer 2

ancient China - c. AD 550 Yuan Huangtou

Question 3

the first to fly and survived

Answer 3

c. AD 1300
military use

Question 4

Henri Gifford 1852 engineer (France)

Answer 4

1852 first successful powered and controlled (right/left, up/down)
flights, long distance (c. 28km), passengers

Question 5

1884 Charles Reynard and Arthur Karens (France)

Answer 5

battery-powered electric motor controlled flights
- first flying machine to return to the point of departure - not just one-way transportation- was mainly filled

Question 6

Clément Ader 1886 French

Answer 6

first air plane flights? Engine/propeller - we don’t know it’s successful
or not - 20-hp engine (only 290kg total loaded with pilot) - light powerful engine - c. 50 meters - but no
evident to proof

Question 7

1897 Avion III (for French ministry of war)

Answer 7

successful? - witnessed by engineers and military - crushed -
first airplane but not very successful

Question 8

1897 Percy Plixgsd (Scottish/British)

Answer 8

oldest recording of aircraft in flight - first airplane flying captured by
camera

Question 9

1897 Augustus Herring (US)

Answer 9

successful unpowered flights in biplane

Question 10

1901/2 Wright’s gliders

Answer 10

Wilbur Wright (1867-1912) Orville Wright (1871-1984) - bicycle producer

Question 11

who actually design and built the aluminum engine for Wight brothers

Answer 11

Charles Taylor

Question 12

first powered flight -December 17, 1903. c. 12 seconds

Answer 12

In 1903 installed Taylor’s engine

Question 13

first war plane

Answer 13

1909 Flyer. III sold to the US army

Question 14

1914

Answer 14

one of Wight brothers died - they have no time to further improve their design

Question 15

Sikorsky S-22 (1914) Russia

Answer 15

has proper tail and can load passengers as compared with 1914 Wight model B

Question 16

The First World War 1914

Answer 16

aircraft established - add machinegun on aircraft

Question 17

Katherine Stinson (1891-1977)

Answer 17

flew Curtiss Stinson special 1917 - will great skills - female pilot

Question 18

Curtiss JN-4 Jenny

Answer 18

After the war - commercial aviation - wooden frame- fragile construction - light,
cheap, easy to make - couldn’t go really fast

Question 19

Germany Bf-109

Answer 19

WWII - build from aluminum - one of best airplanes in end of WWII - obsolete

Question 20

US P-39 Air-cobra

Answer 20

design for Navy - mislabeled design

Question 21

Hawker Hurricane - Britain

Answer 21

very powerful engine made it possible to put gun on its wings

Question 22

Limitations of propeller

Answer 22

ultra sonic speed of propeller cannot go
faster