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The History Of Aviation
What were important points about the shuttle program? - ️️Space shuttle made first test f in 1977; 8 space shuttle aircraft manufactured; space shuttle flown 114 missions; 2 space shuttles destroyed
What were major inventions and improvements during the WW2 era? - ️️power plants (turbochar...
The History of Aviation 51 Questions
With Answers
What were important points about the shuttle program? - ✔ ✔ Space shuttle made first test f in
1977; 8 space shuttle aircraft manufactured; space shuttle flown 114 missions; 2 space shuttles
destroyed
What were major inventions and improvements during the WW2 era? - ✔ ✔ power plants
(turbocharged/supercharged piston engines; jet engines; rocket engines); long range multi-engine
aircraft; radio navigation and communication; pressurized high altitude aircraft
What were major inventions during the "Barnstorming and Record Attempts and Airlines" period? - ✔
✔ gyroscopic instruments for "blind" flight; radio navigation; high altitude flight; high octane gas;
global navigation
What were major inventions during the early powered flight period? - ✔ ✔ aircraft motors;
propellers; three-axis flight control; wheeled landing gear; float planes
What were major inventions during the early years of aviation? - ✔ ✔ balloons (gas, hot air);
concepts (parachute, helicopter, human powered glider)
What were major inventions during World War One? - ✔ ✔ increased horse power engines (rotary
air cooled; water cooled); multi-engine aircraft; dirigibles; advance armament
What were major strides during the World War Two period? - ✔ ✔ pressurized bomber cabins; all
weather flight; jet propulsion; increase in aircraft production; radar and radio navigation
What were records set during the early powered flight era? - ✔ ✔ speed, distance, and endurance
What were the major inventions of the pre-powered flight era? - ✔ ✔ rigid frame aircraft; human
controlled flight (weight shifting); wing design; pitch control surfaces
What were the Montgolfier brothers famous for? - ✔ ✔ made the first hot air balloon flight in
December 1782 in France; made the first manned flight November 1783
What does NACA stand for? - ✔ ✔ National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
What does NASA stand for? - ✔ ✔ National Aeronatics and Space Administration
What is barnstorming? - ✔ ✔ Barnstorming is when pilots would purchase surplus aircraft and fly
them around the country to fairs selling rides to passengers and doing aerobatic flight
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