Donald Douglass
Aviation Records
WWII
Air Mail Service
Future of Aviation
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The first airliner created by Douglass
What is the DC-1
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This female record setter disappeared in the pacific while trying to circumnavigate the globe
Who is Amelia Earhart?
100
Seeing its first use in early detection ground stations, this technology was later shrunk to use on night fighters
What is RADAR?
100
31 out of 40 pilots died during this early aviation service
What is the Air Mail Service?
100
This is the full name of the acronym EFIS
What is Electronic Flight Instrumentation System?
200
Douglass' main competition
What is Boeing?
200
This aircraft was the first to break the sound barrier
What is the Bell X-1?
200
These aircraft were known for their sirens that went off as they dived
What is the Junkers Ju 87?
200
This is the year when the Air Mail Service was officially founded
When is 1918?
200
This system replaced manual flight inputs
What is Fly By Wire?
300
The group that Douglass formed in WWII
What is the AWPC?
300
The first aircraft ever built
What is a hot air balloon?
300
This aircraft's nickname means "swallow" in english
What is the Me 262 Schwalbe?
300
When it first started, the Air Mail Service used planes make by this manufacturer
What is Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company?
300
This designation is used with US experimental aircraft
What is X-?
400
The full name of the SBD
What is the Scout Bomber Douglass?
400
General Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier with this physical injury
What are broken ribs?
400
This US aircraft is simply two already popular planes conjoined at the wing
What is the F-82 Twin Mustang?
400
This was the date when Air Mail as an official service was ended
What is October 10, 1975?
400
This recent development is an improvement upon the turbofan
What is the Ultra high bypass propfan?
500
The company that merged with The Douglass Aircraft Company
What is McDonnell?
500
This Russian plane is the only biplane accredited with an air to air kill on the F-86
What is the Po-2?
500
Arrested after charges of treason, this Russian bomber designer was released from the gulag after developing the extremely successful Tu-2.
Who is Andrei Tupolev?
500
This is the name of the service that replaced Air Mail
What is USPS?
500
The National Aerospace Plane is a developmental aircraft that is trying to achieve what speeds?
What is Hypersonic speeds (>Mach 5.0)?
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