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AVMG EXAM 1Etienne Montgolfier suggested to French officials that this new machine might be used
to transmit communications, to ____, to carry people, drop bombs or transport goods -
ANS-conduct scientific experiments
The Montgolfier Brothers had demonstrated their invention: ____, a flight vehicle lifted
and held aloft by heated air. - ANS-the hot air balloon
Unlike Annonay, Paris had both the financial and chemical resources necessary for
J.A.C. Charles to develop the ___. - ANS-hydrogen balloon
After the second Montgolfiere was destroyed by rain, win d and fire. The next
Montgolfiere was to carry a cage for a ____. - ANS-sheep, a duck, and a rooster
Montgolfiere balloons made for manned flight were financed by the ____. - ANS-French
government
Aviation began in 1783. That year Joseph and Etienne Montgolfiere and J.A.C. Charles
designed and launched to types of balloons: ______. - ANS-the hot air and the
hydrogen balloon
The fifth Montgolfiere, a wood burner, built for public display was called the ____, after a
local government official and supporter. - ANS-Flesselles
Napoleon's army formally organized a company of balloonists to work in pairs as _____,
as well as command and support personnel. - ANS-observers of enemy troop positions
and movements
On the first of two "aerial voyages" by Jean_Pierre Blanchard and John Jerffries,
Jeffries addressed four cards and dropped them over London- an event sometimes
cited as the first ____. - ANS-airmail
In 1783, Dr. John Foulke of Philadelphia released a 6 ft diameter hot air balloon which
was possibly the ____ in the US. - ANS-first unmanned balloon
From scientific and mechanical experimentation in the 18th century, through
showmanship, military applications, scientific research, and exploration, ballooning had
become mostly _____. - ANS-a sport for wealthy people
, A dirigible is an aircraft (non-rigid balloon) that can be ___. - ANS-directed or steered
Regarding the wings or oars, John Jeffries concluded, "that with some Future
improvements... they may be of material service... especially whenever ___." - ANS-the
wind is not strong.
Henri Giffard the Paris Hippodrome flew 17 miles, and in the process demonstrated ___
of his aircraft. - ANS-directional control and horizontal control
Air ship development, like aviation in general, was a/an ___ activity. - ANS-international
The premier airships were those identified by the name __. - ANS-Count Ferdinand von
Zeppelin
Based on German military requirements, Zeppelin designed large __ and numerous
compartments for hydrogen gas. - ANS-large rigid airships with aluminum frames
LZ 7 Deutschland inaugurated ____ with the commercial Deutsche Luftschiffahrts A.G.
DELAG company in 1910. - ANS-passenger service
Lighter-than-air technology evolved from balloons to dirigible balloons to dirigible
balloons with t he semi-rigid or rigid forms; that is, ___. - ANS-from balloon to dirigibles
to airships
Two technologies that influenced aviation were much older than their aeronautical
applications. One was the ___, a Chinese invention. It is essense a flying wing that
dates from the 1st century or earlier. The other is the ___, which originated in ancient
Rome, but the form that influenced aviation appeared in the 12th century Europe. -
ANS-kite... windmill
The ___ was called an airscrew in British usage and a moulinet (revolving fan) in
French usage. - ANS-propeller
Cayley's 1853 flight in particular was historic as it was ___ of a full lize manned aircraft -
ANS-free flight
A ___ has one lifting plane or surface, that is, one wing (a biplane has two; a triplane,
three) - ANS-monoplane
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