Aviation History
These two brothers made the first successful powered flight in 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Who are the Wright Brothers?
These are the four forces that act on an aircraft in flight.
What are lift, weight (gravity), thrust, and drag?
Known as the "Queen of the Skies," this iconic Boeing aircraft featured a distinctive upper deck "hump."
What is the Boeing 747?
This flight instrument measures the altitude of the aircraft above sea level.
What is the altimeter?
This flamboyant British entrepreneur founded the Virgin Group, which launched Virgin America in 2007.
Who is Sir Richard Branson?
This man is recognized as the first Air Traffic Controller, using flags to direct planes in St. Louis.
Who is Archie League?
This upward force, created by the wings, opposes the weight of the airplane.
What is lift?
This European-made aircraft is currently the largest passenger airplane in the world.
What is the Airbus A380?
This cockpit device transmits an aircraft's location and altitude to Air Traffic Control radar.
What is a transponder?
Virgin America was famously known for this type of cabin lighting, designed to make the interior feel like a nightclub.
What is mood lighting (specifically purple/pink)?
This aviator completed the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic in 1927 aboard the "Spirit of St. Louis."
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
This flight control surface on the tail is used to control the aircraft's movement around the vertical axis (yaw).
What is the rudder?
This supersonic passenger jet, which flew from 1976 to 2003, could travel at twice the speed of sound.
What is the Concorde?
Often called the "black box," this device is actually orange and records cockpit audio and flight data.
What is a Flight Data Recorder (FDR) or Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR)?
In 2016, this West Coast-based airline announced it would acquire Virgin America for approximately $2.6 billion.
What is Alaska Airlines?
She was the first women to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
This term describes the angle between the wing chord line and the direction of the relative wind.
What is the Angle of Attack?
This airline, founded in 1919, is the oldest airline in the world still operating under its original name.
What is KLM?
This standard pressure setting (in inches of mercury) is used for altimeters at sea level.
What is 29.92 inHg?
Virgin America's "RED" in-flight system was the first in the U.S. to allow passengers to do this directly from their seatback screens.
What is order food and drinks? (Also accepted: seat-to-seat chat).
In 1947, Chuck Yeager became the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound in this aircraft.
What is the Bell X-1?
In a standard rate turn, an aircraft's heading changes at this many degrees per second.
What is 3 degrees?
Located in Georgia, this is the busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic.
What is Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)?
These movable parts on the trailing edge of a wing are used to increase both lift and drag during takeoff and landing.
What are flaps?
This was the official callsign used by Virgin America pilots when communicating with Air Traffic Control.
What is "Redwood"?