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FCAS Final Exam Questions & Answers 2024/2025 Who is credited for the principle of Buoyancy? - ANSWERSArchimedes Balloons, what year, who? - ANSWERS- 1783, Montgolfier Brothers (Joseph and Etienne) -- released first, manned, free ascent hot air balloon - 1783, J.A.C. Charles -- first man...

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Who is credited for the principle of Buoyancy? - ANSWERSArchimedes



Balloons, what year, who? - ANSWERS- 1783, Montgolfier Brothers (Joseph and Etienne)

-- released first, manned, free ascent hot air balloon

- 1783, J.A.C. Charles

-- first manned flight of a hydrogen filled balloon



Cayley, what were his contributions? - ANSWERS1804, first model airplane flown

1809, built full scale airplane



Penaud, what were his contributions? - ANSWERS- first airplane with inherent lateral and longitudinal
stability

- 1871, 20" rubber band powered model; with dihedral, tail surface, and pusher propeller



Lilienthal, what book did he write, what were his other contributions? - ANSWERS- wrote "Bird Flight as
a Basis of Aviation"

- built and flew a series of gliders beginning in 1891



Chanute, Pratt Truss, assisted others (Wright Brothers) - ANSWERS- civil engineer

- built and tested gliders based on Otto Lilienthal's designs

- wrote "progress in flying machine"



Langley, steam powered model, Smithsonian curator - ANSWERSmay 6, 1896, flew a steam powered
model 3,300 ft

,Wright brothers, first names, profession, home city, where did they make their 1st flights? - ANSWERS-
Wilbur Wright

- Orville Wright

- Orville started a printing press while in high school

- they owned a bike shop in Dayton, Ohio

- Made their first flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina



Date of Wright Brothers first flight? - ANSWERSDecember 17, 1903



Length and distance of Wright Brothers first flight? - ANSWERS12 seconds, 120 feet



other contributions from the Wright Brothers? - ANSWERS- built wind tunnel in 1901

- 1900 began working with gliders



Glenn Curtiss, what were his contributions? - ANSWERS- July 25, 1909, first to fly across the English
channel

- first to build a monoplane and fly across the English Channel



Louis Bleriot, what were his contributions? - ANSWERS- July 25, 1909, first to fly across the English
channel

- first to build a monoplane and fly across the English channel



1st trans-americas flight, when, who? - ANSWERS- Calbraith Perry Rogers

- September 17-November 5, 1911



Sikorsky, what were his contributions? - ANSWERS- September 14, 1939: first helicopter flight in the U.S.

-- first practical single rotor helicopter



NACA, what was this and when was it founded? - ANSWERS- National Advisory Committee for
Aeronautics

, - established by President Woodrow Wilson in 1915



WW1, dates, aviation advancements? - ANSWERS- July 28, 1914-November 11, 1918

- Advancements:

-- airplane development

-- airplanes:

--- stronger

--- faster

--- more powerful engines

-- fighters are faster and armed better

-- multi-engine bombers are able to deliver ordinance from hundreds of miles away



Golden Age of Aviation, when was this - ANSWERS1918-1939, between World War 1 and World War 2



Air-Mail, when, what cities? - ANSWERS- May 15, 1918

-- New York, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C.

- September 8-11, 1920

-- New York to San Francisco



Trans-atlantic flights, what year (NC-4, Lindbergh) - ANSWERS- NC-4

-- May 8-31, 1919

- Lindbergh

-- May 20, 1927



Air Commerce Act of 1926, what was this, what did it accomplish? - ANSWERS- development of civil
aviation

- navaids

- licensed pilots

- airworthiness certificates

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