PEOPLE
Wilbur and Orville, the two American brothers responsible for the first heavier-than-air motorized flight in history, shared a last name that was not wrong.
What is Wright?
This type of plane has interchangeable landing gear, allowing it to take off from and land on water, snow or ice, and the ground.
What is a bushplane?
Planes and dogs both have these, but only the dog's can wag theirs.
What is a tail?
This Force of Flight slows a plane down, just like you would slow down if you did this with your feet while walking.
What is drag?
This aircraft doesn't need wings to fly.
What is a helicopter?
Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in a plane with this kind word painted on both sides.
What is Friendship?
The nickname of Canada's first bushplane, the Noorduyn Norseman, is a combination of a type of noisy storm and a barnyard bird.
What is Thunder Chicken?
This is where the pilot sits in an airplane.
What is the cockpit?
This person is the 2nd in command on an airplane and sits beside the pilot in the cockpit.
What is a co-pilot?
This building is like a garage for airplanes and sounds the same something you would find in a clothes closet.
What is a hangar?
This man invented the telephone and was also the leader of the Aerial Experiment Association that created the Silver Dart, the first heavier-than-air motorized airplane to fly in Canada.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
This furry mammal that loves to swim shares its name with a bushplane that is sometimes called "The King Beaver."
What is an otter?
The pilot uses his feet to operate this control surface located at the back of the plane which, like on a sailboat, actually steers the nose of the vessel.
What is a rudder?
Models in a fashion show walk on these and airplanes land on them.
What is a runway?
This part of a plane provides the thrust to move the plane forward and is basically a "wing with a twist."
What is a propellor?
This Sault Ste. Marie native was the first female Canadian astronaut.
Who is Roberta Bondar?
The Bushplane Museum is home to the oldest flyable one of these planes, considered to be "the best bushplane ever built."
What is a de Havilland Beaver?
Flaps and ailerons are found on this part of an airplane.
What are wings?
This control surface on a airplane shares a name with a device in a building that carries you up and down.
What is an elevator?
The first flight in a heavier-than-air motorized aircraft in Canada was made in this plane, named for its metallic colour.
What is the Silver Dart?
Tom Cooke invented roll tanks that attached to the floats of bushplanes, marking the successful start to developing this aerial firefighting strategy.
What is waterbombing?
This airplane in our museum was flown by Canada's first female bush pilot, Violet Milstead, and shares its name with a large sled dog.
What is the Husky?
Derived from the French word fusele, this is the name for the body of an aircraft.
What is the fuselage?
The elevator on an airplane controls this axis of flight which sounds like something someone does with a ball in a baseball game.
What is pitch?
This air service formed one hundred years ago to help manage Ontario's forests was headquartered here in Sault Ste. Marie.
What is the Ontario Provincial Air Service?