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First success in controlled, powered and sustained flight.
Who are the Wright Brothers?
An unpowered aircraft using thermals for flight.
What is a glider?
An upgraded hot air balloon.
What is a dirigible?
First to cross Atlantic Ocean solo.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
According to legend, father and son built two sets of wings to escape imprisonment.
Who is Daedalus?
Invented gunpowder.
The Chinese.
Union Army appointed aeronaut Thaddeus Lowe to organize aerial observations.
What is the Balloon Signal Service?
The transcontinental speed race.
What is the Bendix Race?
Commanded the first mass use of aircraft for bombing attacks.
Who was General Billy Mitchell?
By 1912 one modern country had not formed a military flying service.
What is the United States of America?
France licensed the first African-American women pilot.
Who is Bessie Coleman?
Ex-military aviators flew war-surplus aircraft after WWI around the USA to generate support for aviation progress.
What is the barnstormers?
Founders Lloyd Stearman, Clyde Cessna and Walter Beech of manufacturing small aircraft.
What is Travel Air?
First woman to cross Atlantic Ocean as a passenger and solo pilot.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
Leonardo Da Vinci described and drew designs of the first aviation tool and machine.
What are the parachute and helicopter?
Brothers who designed the hot air balloon and had three living passengers flown in front of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.
Who are the Montgolfier brothers?
Name three basic problems of flight.
What are lift, sustaining lift and controlling aircraft once it is in flying?
WWI had 45 American squadrons. They flew in borrowed combat aircrafts.
What are British and French aircrafts?
Father of Modern Aviation.
Who is Otto Lilienthal?
The US Army purchased the entire "Air Force" in 1908 for $25,000.
What was a single Wright biplane?
First aviator to fly coast to coast covering 4251 miles with average of 52 mph, 68 landings no landing strips.
Who was Calbraith Rodgers?
Measures the pressure of the atmosphere.
What is the Barometer?
Upper surface of wing to increase lift.
What is cambered?
Developed wind tunnels for testing wing shapes.
Who was Francis Wenham?
Secretly built a 440 pound glider and first flight at night.
Who was John Montgomery?