Week 5 Midterm Flashcards
With the Flyer in December 1903 and again with the Flyer No.3 in 1905, Wilbur and Orville Wright clearly represented the state of the art in?
Airplane design and operation.
Another group of brothers were the first airplane manufacturing company in Britain in 1908. They were?
The Short brothers
Who was the first person to fly across the English Channel?
Lous Charles-Joseph Bleriot
The first Curtiss flying boat underwent tests at the naval facility at San Diego in January?
1912
Who was the first woman to fly airmail in 1913?
Katherine Stinson
WWI was started with what event?
The assassination of Arch Duke Ferdinand
At the beginning of the First World War, airplanes, balloons, dirigibles, and airships flew what types of missions?
Reconnaissance missions.
Zeppelins, regardless of make, were wunderwaffen. This translates to mean what?
Wonder weapons.
Most aircraft entering the great war were mostly two-seat and relatively low-powered biplanes with limited maneuverability and limited load-carrying capacity. Regarding this statement.
This is a true statement.
What year did the United States enter WWI?
1917
Who was credited with the invention of the cam mechanism that allowed for forward-firing machine gun to fire between the propeller blades?
Anthony Fokker
The Treaty of Versailles and its harsh treatment of Germany influenced international what?
Aviation development.
What two British airmen were recognized as being the first to cross the Atlantic Ocean?
Alcock and Brown
After WWI ended, pilots with military flight experience became popular with public audiences by displaying aircraft and flying abilities through what medium?
Barnstorming and competitions.
The most popular aircraft used for barnstorming was the?
Curtiss JN -4.
The first airmail route in the United States flew in August 1918 from where to where?
New York to Washington.
Two acts of Congress would generally transform aviation into a regulated and subsidized industry. What were they?
Air Mail Act of 1925 and the Air Commerce Act of 1926.
Aviation began in France in 1783 when the Montgolfier brothers invented the what?
Balloon.
Regarding balloons, there were two types developed, they were?
Hot air and Hydrogen.
A dirigible is an aircraft that can be?
Directed or Steered.
