Inventions
Invented the kite.
Who are the Chinese?
Year in which the first balloon flight with humans occurred.
What is 1783?
Credited with the first known human attempt to fly.
Who is Armen Firman?
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton's third law of motion?
Made wings out of wax and bird feathers to escape imprisonment on the island of Crete.
Who were Daedalus and Icarus?
First aircraft with directional control.
What are gliders?
The balloon section of the Signal Corps was established on this date.
What is 1892?
First person in the history of aviation that was also a real scientist.
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?
The figure that the wing tips of a bird make while in flight.
What is a figure eight?
Another term for Newtonian lift.
What is dynamic lift?
This component allowed pilots to steer dirigibles.
The kite was invented in this time period.
What is 1000 BC?
Credited with inventing the first successful dirigible.
Who is Henri Giffard?
Three problems that early aviators faced.
What is how to get up into the air, stay in the air, and control where they're going?
These were the worlds first commercial airships.
What are zeppelins?
A dirigible is categorized as this type of craft.
What is a lighter-than-air craft?
Sir George Cayley built the first successful full-sized manned glider on this date.
What is 1850?
Organized the Balloon Corps of the Union Army.
Who is Thaddeus Lowe?
Principle on which a hot air balloon operates.
What is buoyancy?
US armed forces first used balloons in this war.
What is the Civil War?
The Chinese used gunpowder to make the first simple version of these.
What are rockets?
Date gunpowder was invented.
What is AD 800?
Often called the "Father of Modern Aviation"
Discovered that when a fluid moves faster the pressure drops.
Who is Daniel Bernoulli?
Two phases of bird flight.
What are ground phase and lift phase?