History of Flight
Weather
Aircraft Systems
Space
Military Aviation
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These brothers conducted the first powered, controlled flight in history.
Who are the Wright Brothers?
100
This instrument measures the pressure of the atmosphere.
What is a Barometer?
100
This aircraft instrument displays altitude.
What is the Altimeter?
100
This was the first man-made satellite put into space.
What is Sputnik?
100

A massive, multi-faceted aerial and missile bombardment on January 17, 1991, began a military conflict known as this.

What is operation Desert Storm?

200
This pilot was the first to fly solo across the Atlantic.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
200
These severe storms consist of unstable air at very low pressure.
What are Tornados?
200

These are the three gyroscopic instruments found in an aircraft cockpit.

  • What is the attitude indicator, heading indicator, and turn coordinator/turn indicator? 
200
This moon mission was aborted due to an oxygen tank explosion.
What is Apollo 13?
200
These were the first African-American military aviators in the United States Army Air Forces.
Who are the Tuskegee Airman?
300
In 1947, this pilot became the first to break the sound barrier.
Who is Chuck Yeager?
300
These high-altitude clouds are wispy, thin, and lacy.
What are Cirrus Clouds?
300
An electrical generator that produces power when it is rotated.
What are Magnetos?
300
A small, irregular shaped body composed of water, ice, rock, and frozen gasses.
What is a Comet?
300

The first animal aviators—a sheep, a duck, and a cockerel—were sent aloft in this type of aircraft.

What is a hot air balloon.

400
His discovery of the relationship between pressure and fluids in motion became the cornerstone of the theory of airfoil lift.
Who is Daniel Bernoulli?
400
A hurricane that occurs in the Western Pacific.
What is a Typhoon?
400
This system in an airplane carburetor prevents ice from forming in the venturi.
What is the Carburetor Heat?
400
  • These are the four "gas giant" planets in our solar system? 
  • What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
400

This is the largest U.S. bomber ever made, with a wingspan of 230ft. and able to carry a payload of 87,200 pounds

What is the Corvair B-36 "Peacemaker," 

500
Man's first powered flight occurred in this country.
What is France?
500
A large mass of water vapor condensed to fine particles, at or just above the earth's surface.
What is Fog?
500
This instrument monitors engine speed.
What is the Tachometer?
500
The first American Manned space flight program.
What is Project Mercury?
500

America's first advocate for airpower who proved that airplanes could sink ships, and has a rank for Civil Air Patrol Cadets named for them.

Who is Billy Mitchel?

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