Civil Air Patrol Spaatz Exam - Aerospace
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Air & Space Power - ANSWER-The ability to take advantage of air and space to move
people, cargo, and information.
Emperor Shun - ANSWER-"_________________________ donn[ed] the work clothes
of a bird."
Kei Kung - ANSWER-Chinese god of Thunder and Lightning:
Ki-Kung-Shi - ANSWER-This man supposedly built a flying chariot.
Kite - ANSWER-At about 500 BC, the Chinese invented this:
Gunpowder - ANSWER-About 900 AD, the Chinese invented ______________.
Rockets - ANSWER-By 1100, the Chinese were using gunpowder to power simple
_____________.
Wan Hoo - ANSWER-A legendary account of ___________________ tells the story of a
man who strapped 47 rockets to a chair and attempted to fly to the moon.
Daedulus and Icarus - ANSWER-________________________ built wings from wax
and feathers to escape from King Minos of Crete.
Leonardo da Vinci - ANSWER-Great Italian artist, architect, painter, and man of science
made the first experiments on the field of aviation. 1452-1519
Ornithopter - ANSWER-An aircraft propelled by flapping wings, designed by Leonardo
da Vinci.
,Torricelli, Von Guericke, and Pascal - ANSWER-These three men made discoveries in
the study of the atmosphere such as the fact that the atmosphere is a fluid, atmospheric
pressure decreases with altitude, the invention of the barometer, and the invention of
the air pump.
Francesco de Lana - ANSWER-a Jesuit priest who wrote a proposal for an aerial ship,
which was, in theory, close to the right idea of hot air balloons. he also discussed the
need for ballast, controlled ascent and descent, and military uses for balloons.
Laurenco de Gusmao - ANSWER-A Jesuit priest credited with the invention of the hot
air balloon in 1709.
1766 - ANSWER-Henry Cavendish discovered a gas, now called hydrogen, that he
called "flammable air."
Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier - ANSWER-Two papermakers from Annonay, France
who first achieved manned flight.
June 5, 1783 - ANSWER-First flight by the Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon.
November 21, 1783 - ANSWER-The Montgolfier brothers' second flight with a sheep, a
rooster, and a duck inside the balloon.
Pilatre de Rozier and Marquis d'Arlandes - ANSWER-First men to fly in a lighter-than-air
aircraft over Paris, France.
August 27, 1793 - ANSWER-JAC Charles used hydrogen to float a hot air balloon.
December 1, 1783 - ANSWER-First manned flight in a hydrogen balloon.
76 - ANSWER-Between 1783 and 1790, _____ Flights were recorded in France alone.
1793 - ANSWER-France formed an air arm to their Army, beginning to use balloons for
reconnaissance.
1797, Andre-Jacques Garnerin - ANSWER-The first parachute jump from 3000 feet.
January 7, 1785 - ANSWER-Jean Pierre Blanchard and Dr. John Jeffries flew across
the English Channel.
,November 10, 1798 - ANSWER-Jeanne-Genevieve Garnerin, wife of Andre-Jacques
Garnerin, became one of the earliest women to fly in a balloon.
October 12, 1799 - ANSWER-Jeanne-Genevieve Garnerin became the first woman to
parachute from a balloon.
Madeleine Sophie Blanchard - ANSWER-The first woman to be killed in a ballooning
accident in 1819.
January 9, 1793 - ANSWER-First balloon flight in the United States
Thaddeus S. C. Lowe - ANSWER-Organized Balloon Signal Service of the Union Army.
Dirigible - ANSWER-lighter than air aircraft that can be steered and propelled.
Henri Giffard - ANSWER-1852, he is credited for inventing the first successful dirigible.
The LaFrance - ANSWER-The first airship powered by electric motors, built by Charles
Renard and AC Krebs in 1884.
Paul Haenlein - ANSWER-In 1872, he built a dirigible with an internal-combustion
engine.
Santos Dumont - ANSWER-The first man to build and fly gasoline-powered dirigibles.
Ferdinand von Zeppelin - ANSWER-July 1900, this man built and flew the world's first
rigid dirigible, the LZ-1, with a steel/aluminum framework.
The Deutschland - ANSWER-The LZ-7, the world's first commerical airship on June 22,
1910.
Absolute Charging - ANSWER-Occurs when the whole aircraft is charged.
Acceleration - ANSWER-When a body is subjected to the application of force over time.
Ace - ANSWER-A pilot who shot down five enemy aircraft.
Active Communications Satellite - ANSWER-A satellite, such as the Courier 1B, that
received signals from ground stations, amplified them and then rebroadcasted the
signals to receiving stations on Earth
, Advection - ANSWER-Lateral heat transfer that is important in the global circulation of
air.
Advection Fog - ANSWER-Fog formed when wind blows moist air over a cold surface
and the surface cools the air to its dew-point temperature.
Aeronaut - ANSWER-Balloonist
Aeronautics - ANSWER-The science and art of flying through the atmosphere.
Aerospace - ANSWER-A compound term used to describe the atmosphere and space
as one medium.
Ailerons - ANSWER-Small flaps on the wings of aircraft that help control the plane.
Airfoil - ANSWER-Parts of an airplane, such as wings, tail surfaces, and propellers,
designed to cause a dynamic reaction from the air through which it moves.
Airframe Rocket System - ANSWER-Serves to contain the other systems and to provide
a streamlined shape
Air Pump - ANSWER-Invented by Torricelli, Von Geuricke, and Pascal to study
vacuums
Airspeed Indicator - ANSWER-Informs the pilot of the speed through the air in terms of
miles per hour and/or knots
Air Superiority - ANSWER-Complete Command of the Air
Air Traffic Control - ANSWER-Concerned with keeping aircraft safely separated to
prevent accidents.
Airways - ANSWER-Three-dimensional highways in the sky and another subdivision of
controlled airspace.
Alto - ANSWER-Middle altitude clouds where the stratus and cumulus shapes are found
and called altostratus and altocumulus.
Altimeter - ANSWER-Aneroid barometer that reads in feet altitude and is calibrated to
atmospheric pressure in inches of mercury.
