Pioneering Age
The person whose chief contribution to aerospace is the cambered wing.
Sir George Cayley
The period in-between the world wars, where the focus of aviation was going faster, higher, farther, and setting records
Golden Age
Increase in technology.
The women of the WWII Soviet Air Force were nicknamed this because of the sound their airplanes made in a glide before they dropped their bombs
Night Witches
Increase, Decrease, or No Change. The accident rate for passenger carrying airlines in the early 1960s following the incorporation of jet engines and their ability to fly above the weather.
Significant Decrease in fatalities.
The men who incorporated 3-axis control of a motorized flying machine.
The Wright Brothers.
Wilbur and Orville Wright.
The first scheduled airline flight was between these two locations.
St. Petersburg and Tampa, Florida
The large scale targeting of a countries industrial or population centers to degrade military production and civilian morale.
Strategic Bombing
This organization advocates for the advancement of women in aviation.
The Ninenty-Nines
The airline pricing system to ensure that no passenger pays any less than exactly what it takes to get them on an airplane
Yield Management
This Airship was launched and recovered from a floating hangar.
The mission of the early airplanes in WWI was to
Observe and report enemy positions to headquarters
He designed the German V-2 rocket. He later designed rockets for the US military and the NASA Saturn program.
Wernher von Braun
The first woman to break the sound barrier.
Jackie Cochran
Following this event, the U.S. government would no longer determine who flew where and how much they charged.
Deregulation of Airlines, 1978.
The men who developed the first balloon flights to carry people in the 1780s.
The Montgolfier Brothers
Jacques and Etienne Montgolfier
Airmail routes would eventually become the first
Federal Airways
The degree of dominance in an air battle that allows one force to conduct operations without prohibitive interference from the enemy
Air Superiority
The first licensed woman pilot.
Harriet Quimby
These two men separately invented these at approximately the same time during WWII
Whittle and Ohain
The first recorded dogfight between two friendly mercenaries occurred during this conflict.
The Mexican Revolution
The highest scoring ace of WWI
Baron Manfred von Richthofen "The Red Baron" (80 confirmed aerial victories)
This country forced America into WWII by bombing Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941.
Japan
The first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She disappeared in the Pacific Ocean while attempting to circumnavigate the globe.
Amelia Earhart
In the Digital Age, these are used to aid aircraft in economy and efficiency.
Computers