Key Individuals
Built the engine for Thomas Baldwin's dirigible.
Who is Glenn Curtiss?
The body of an airplane containing the crew and passengers (or cargo).
What is the fuselage?
The time it took the Vin Fiz flyer to cross the United States.
What is 49 Days?
Glenn Curtiss's first student.
Who is Blanche Stuart Scott?
First woman authorized to fly the experimental animal service.
The year the US government purchased engines for the US Army’s first dirigible, SC-1.
What is 1908?
A porthole.
What is a small circular window?
He made the first airplane crossing of the united states from coast to coast.
Who is Calbraith Perry Rodgers?
First American woman to earn her pilot's license.
Who is Harriet Quimby?
The first European woman to pilot a plane.
Who is French baroness Raymonde de la Roche?
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
Has greater power, reliability, and safety than a single-engine plane.
What is a multiengine plane?
The first enlisted man to become a pilot.
Who is PFC Vernon Burge?
She won the Rodman Wanamaker Trophy for flying at an attitude of 2,500 feet.
Who is Matilde Moisant?
In 1991, the US Post Office created a stamp is this woman's honor.
Who is Harriet Quimby?
He was the first man to cross the English Channel in a heavier-than-air craft.
Who is Louis Blériot?
These helped reduce motor weight in aircraft.
What are rotary engines?
The first European pilot to fly a powered airplaine.
Who is Alberto Santos-Dumont?
The first woman pilot to die in a crash.
Who is Julia Clark?
He retired on 31 January 1942 at the rank of colonel.
Who is Vernon Burge?
This engine broke records for speed and rate of climb.
What is the Wasp?
Name of the Seguin brothers' engine.
Established France's largest airplane manufacturer.
Who is Henri Farman?
Youngest American woman to earn her pilot's license.
Who is Katherine Stinson?
Who is Igor Sikorsky?