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
This was the name for the German air force during WW2.
What is the Luftwaffe?
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 navigational charts have a scale of about 8 statute miles per inch and are specifically designed for aviation use.
What is a Sectional?
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
With 26 aerial victories, this pilot became America's Ace of Aces during World War 1.
Who is Eddie Rickenbacker?
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
This measurement of distance is equivalent to 3.26 light years or 19.2 trillion miles.
What is a Parsec?
400
This World War 2 fighter was nicknamed "The Jug."
What is the P-47 Thunderbolt?
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.
Who is Billy Mitchel?
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