These people are the inventors of the first airplane
Who were the Wright Brothers?
100
These are two differences between balloons and airships.
What are engines, ways to control direction, sealed envelope, and use of a rigid structure?
100
The first person to make blue prints of the first human powered planed.
Who was Leonardo Da Vinci?
100
The country which first used rockets for military purposes.
What is China?
100
Three ways aircraft improved throughout the 20th century.
What is more powerful, faster, lighter, stronger, higher, etc?
200
This person invented the wind tunnel
Who is Frances Wenham?
200
These are five materials available to early flight pioneers.
What are wood, fabric, iron, paper, glue, nails, rope, screws, cable, copper, gold, silver?
200
The gas used for flight in airships and dirigibles.
What is hydrogen?
200
These were developed by Sir Isaac Newton and used to explain principles of rocket flight.
What are the Three Laws of Motion?
200
The first commercial airline service appeared in this decade.
What is the 1930's?
300
They invented the first hot air balloon.
Who were the Montgolfier Brothers?
300
These are two challenges to early flight.
What are large flight surfaces, powerful engines, stabilility and control, and strong, lightweight materials.
300
This aerospace vehicle crashed and burned in 1937, causing the downfall of an entire industry.
What is the Hindenburg?
300
He built the first liquid-propellant rocket.
Who is Robert Goddard?
300
The fist jet airplane was flown by this country.
What is Germany?
400
This was invented by the Chinese 2400 years ago.
What is the kite?
400
Daily Double:
Two of the three things the Wright Brothers did before attempting flight (their design process.)
What is studying the designs of other inventors, gathering as much info as possible, and testing their designs before attempting powered flight?
400
Stated "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
Who is Neil Armstrong?
400
The country to launch the first satellite into space.
What is Russia or the USSR?
400
The Boeing 777 was the first airplane constructed using this process.
What is computer aided engineering and design?
500
This person held the patent for the first jet engine.
Who is Frank Whittle?
500
Invented in 1896 that made powered flight possible.
What is the gasoline engine?
500
These are three of the impacts of he invention of the airplane.
What are new types of warfare, jobs created in transportation/ manufacturing industry,new technologies, safer and more efficient travel, space travel, increased globalization?
500
The year of the first manned orbit by Yuri Gagarin.
What is 1961?
500
This airplane was the first intercontinental bomber and is still flown by the U.S. Air Force today.