First woman to solo across the Atlantic
Amelia Earhart
First aircraft to break the sound barrier
Bell X-1
First American in space
First US military squadron of Black aviators
Tuskegee Airmen
Aviator who led the first raid against mainland Japan during WW2
General James "Jimmy" Doolittle
Fastest airbreathing aircraft in history
Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird
First USAF officer on the Moon
Brigadier General Buzz Aldrin
How is lift over a wing created
Airflow split over an airfoil creates a high velocity low pressure zone above the wing and lower velocity high pressure zone under the wing, creating lift
This president served as a fighter pilot in the Air National Guard
This aircraft was notorious amongst American pilots in the pacific during early WW2
A6M2 Zero
The single most complex aircraft in human history
The Space Shuttle
This airport is commonly accepted to be the most dangerous airport in the world
Tenzing-Hillary Airport (VNLK)
First woman to break the sound barrier
Jacqueline Cochran
Most produced military aircraft in US history
C-47 Skytrain
This USSF vehicle is currently in Earth orbit on a classified DoD mission
X-37B (Orbital Test Vehicle)
The US Military's first Aircraft Carrier
USS Langley (CV-1)
Who is the final USAF flying ace
Brigadier General Richard Steve Ritchie
The US aircraft that destroyed the most enemy aircraft in history
P-51 Mustang (5,944)
Only US Air Force aircraft to be manually flown into space
North American X-15
The year that a toilet was first installed on an aircraft
1919 (Handley Page Type W)