Lesson 1A
The early inventors made flying devices from this.
What is cloth?
The gas J.A.C. Charles experimented with that is lighter than air and can be used to provide lift in balloons.
What is Hydrogen?
The pilot in the Wright Flyer was situated.
How was Laying on his stomach?
The first known human attempt to fly
Who is Armen Firman?
Credited with inventing the first successful dirigible.
Henri Giffard
The following helped reduce drag on the Wright Flyer.
What is Fabric coated on the wings, elevator, and rudder?
Armen Firman used this in his first attempt to fly?
What is a huge cloak?
He was often called the “Father of Modern Aviation”.
Who is Otto Lilienthal?
This fabric covered the wings of the Wright Flyer.
What is Muslin?
A bird move forward to create lift by.
What is by Flapping its wings?
This powered the first models of Dr. Samuel Piermont Langley.
What are Rubber bands?
Interested in buying the Flyer.
Who are the British?
Da Vinci’s drawing of an airscrew looked like.
What is a helicopter?
This must happen for a balloon to float.
What is the air or gas inside the balloon is lighter than the air around it?
The Wright brothers use these on the Wright Flyer instead of wheels.
What are Skids?
An ornithopter get its upward and forward motion by.
What is Flapping wings?
The first balloon flight with humans aboard occurred.
When is 1783?
The propellers on the Wright Flyer sat.
Where are Behind the wings?
Daedalus and his son Icarus made wings from this to escape the island of Crete.
What are Bird feathers?
The following is an example of a heavier-than-air craft.
What are Gliders?
This provided more stability and control during flight.
What is A low angle of attack?
The figure the wing tips of a bird make when in flight.
What is Figure eight?
The world’s first commercial airship.
What are Zeppelins?
A pilot of the Wright Flyer moved the plane left or right by.
What was Moving his hips?
The kite was invented.
When is 1000 BC?
The new dirigible airship had these that allowed pilots to steer them.
What are Rudders?
The brothers received this on 22 May 1906.
What is A patent?
Concluded that man’s muscle power wasn’t great enough to lift his weight.
Who is Giovanni Alfonso Borelli?
The Montgolfier’s balloon needed this to stay in the air.
What was to keep the air inside the balloon hot?
The following was a technical requirement needed to meet the government’s request for bids to build an airplane.
What is Be able to land without damage.
The Chinese mostly use rockets for.
What are Celebrations?
Became famous for flying a dirigible around the Eiffel tower.
Who is Alberto Santos-Dumont?
1st Lieutenant Frank P. Lahm and 2nd Lieutenant Fredric E. Humphreys trained this long before their solo flights.
What is Less than a month?
The first aircraft that had directional control.
What are Gliders?
US armed forces first used balloons.
When is during the Civil War?
The Wright brothers calculated this many pounds of thrust was needed to propel the Wright Flyer.
What is 90?
The Chinese invent gunpowder in this year.
When is AD 800?
In this battle the actions of balloons turn the battle into a US victory.
What is the Battle of San Juan Hill?
The Wrights used this for the bracing in their unmanned box kite.
What is Steel?
The following makes a bird well suited for flight.
What is Hollow bones?
The balloon section in the Signal Corps was established.
When is 1892?
This placement of the elevator made it easier to control climb and descent.
What is the elevator was placed forward?
Kites used for this around AD 1300.
What is to observe enemy actions during battle?
The following is an example of a lighter-than-air craft.
What is a Dirigible?
The Wright brothers achieved success with their glider design in this year.
When is 1902?
Direction bird feathers push.
What is Downward and backward?
Organized the Balloon Corps of the Union Army.
Who is Thaddeus Lowe?
This was step one for the Wright brothers achieving manned, powered aircraft.
What is Building an unmanned box kite?
The first person in the history of aviation that was also a real scientist.
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?
Invented the hot air balloon.
Who is Laurenço de Gusmão?
The diameter of the propellers on the Wright Flyer.
What is eight feet?
This phase of bird flight allows the bird to get started moving forward for the wings to provide the necessary lift.
What is the Ground phase?
He came up with the idea of using a fixed wing for lift and a separate system for propulsion.
Who is Sir George Cayley?
He built the engine for the Wright Flyer.
Who is Charles E. Taylor?
Invented the kite.
Who is the Chinese?
The Ariel, designed by W.S. Henson and John Stringfellow was never built.
What is True?
The key to the Wright brother’s success.
What is Countless test flights?
This needs to occur for a bird to be lifted by its wings.
What is they must move forward fast enough to make air pass over its wings?
This was the name of Langley’s aircraft.
What is the Aerodrome?
Wilbur’s first flight lasted.
What is 3.5 seconds?