Famous Flying
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This is a twin engine land based flyer used by Japanese during WWII.
Betty Bomber or My Sweetheart
What is Betty Bomber?
This famous flying elephant has the cutest name.
Dumbo or Elmer the Elephant
Who is Dumbo?
This British airplane has a funny name.
Bee or Mosquito
What is the Mosquito? (WWII, made primarily of wood)
Warmer air is less dense than cooler air. This principle permits us to travel by means
of this.
Hot Air Balloon or Hindenberg
What is Hot Air Balloon?
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The first woman to circumnavigate the Earth was Jean Barrett in 1774.
She was able to do this because:
She was disguised as a man on board, or she bought the ship that sailed the globe.
What was She was disguised as a man on board?
US Military Jet the F-14 also called this.
Jerry Cat or Tom Cat.
What is Tom Cat?
This mostly land animal often goes "meep" to jump over obstacles.
Roadrunner or Phoenix
What is the Roadrunner?
The German flying machine famously went down, and a newsman exclaimed, "Oh, the
Humanity." This flying machine was this.
The Hindenberg or Goodyear Blimp
What is the Hindenberg?
The first machine to use jet propulsion was Heinkel He 178. It was developed in
this year.
1939 or 1951
What is 1939?
Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo around the world in a balloon in 2002.
He was preceded by a pair who completed the same trip three years earlier. It took this many attempts
for Fossett to succeed solo. Five or two
What was five? It was called the Spirit of Freedom balloon.
Boeing B29 Superfortress bomber which dropped the first atomic bomb.
Enola Gay or Lola Joan
What is the Enola Gay? (named after the pilot's mother)
Rocky and Bullwinkle are pals. This one flies.
Rocky or Bullwinkle
Who is Rocky (Rocket J Squirrel)?
NFL football game recorders now regularly use this "flying" thing called this.
Skycam or Eye in the Sky
What is Skycam?
The 4 Rolls Royce/Snecma Olympus turbojet engines kept this beauty aloft.
Hindenberg or Concorde.
What was the Concorde? (Developed by UK and France)
Alan Eustace is current record holder for highest parachute jump. He reports that during his
14 minute fall to Earth, it was quiet. He did not hear this:
Wind or sonic boom
What is Sonic boom? Even at Mach 1.22 the boom can only be heard on Earth, rather than
from the parachute jumper's position.
This space shuttle with a friendly name was NASA's first orbiter, in1976 for
atmospheric test flights, not space travel
Enterprise or Sputnik.
What is the Enterprise?
Nephews of Donald Duck are sometimes given superpowers to fly. They are:
Huey, Dewy and Louie or Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail.
Who are Huey, Dewey and Louie?
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Sites such as power plants and military bases have this to protect security.
No Fly Zones or Drone teams.
What are No Fly Zones?
Japanese fire lanterns are kept aloft by the hot air created by fire from a candle or paraffin.
It lifts because the lantern is made of this.
Light paper or metal shell.
What is light paper?
The jet used to train astronauts by simulation weightlessness is nicknamed this.
Free Fall or Vomit Comet
What is the Vomit Comet? (the jet flies in roller coaster like climbs and descents)
Blue cartoon airplane flown by Snoopy as a WWII flying ace.
Sopwith Camel or Betty Boop
What is the Sopwith Camel?
This antagonist of Donald Duck and Pluto was often found to be flying at them. This is
Spike the Bee or Buzz the Bee
Who is Spike the Bee?
A primary Biblical figure did not "die" but was
"Taken up in a whirlwind with a chariot of fire."
Moses or Elijah
Who was Elijah? (2 Kings 2:11)
Newton's Third Law of Motion propels a fart. The velocity of a fart is this.
3 feet per second or 9 feet per second.
What is 9 feet per second?
Neal Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin ate these foods as part of their first meal on the lunar surface:
bacon squares, peaches and sugar cookie squares. These special foods were formulated to do this.
Be easy to hold, or to prevent crumbs.
What is To Prevent Crumbs?