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What distinguished Charles Lindbergh's transatlantic flight of 1927 from earlier and later transatlantic flights? - ️️First successful, solo, nonstop flight across the atlantic What distinguishes the Wright's flights of 17 December 1903 from earlier heavier-than-air flights? - ️️This fligh...

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Aviation history 54 Review Quiz
Questions With Answers
What distinguished Charles Lindbergh's transatlantic flight of 1927 from earlier and later transatlantic
flights? - ✔ ✔ First successful, solo, nonstop flight across the atlantic

What distinguishes the Wright's flights of 17 December 1903 from earlier heavier-than-air flights? - ✔
✔ This flight was powered, where other heavier-than-air flights were gliders

What enabled aircraft to fly long distances in 1919? - ✔ ✔ The advances made during the war -
military aircraft were larger arid stronger, engines more powerful and reliable, and instruments and
radios more developed and more installed in aircraft. Military aviation influenced the immediate
postwar activities in civil as well as military aviation.

What features defined the modern airliners of the thirties and what airliners met the definition? - ✔
✔ Two-engine, all metal, seating for passengers.

247, DC-2, 10 Electra.

What glider experiments influenced the design of the airplane? - ✔ ✔ Sir George Cayley's
experiments

What kind of aircraft were the Graf Zeppelin and Hindenberg? - ✔ ✔ Airships

What kinds of airplanes did Glenn Curtiss build? - ✔ ✔ Pusher airplanes, hydroplanes, flying boats

What makes a balloon dirigible? - ✔ ✔ It must be able to be directionally controlled

What restrictions did the Treaty of Versailles place on German aviation? - ✔ ✔ Caused forced
reduction of aircraft and set limits on the size of German armed forces, including aerial forces - Germany
was forbidden from having any naval or military force of any kind

What types of aircraft flew across the Atlantic Ocean in 1919? - ✔ ✔ Naval/Curtiss flying boats,
Vickers Vimy, Sopwith Atlantic,

How did the advent of instrument flying change the nature of aircraft operation? - ✔ ✔ Instrument
approaches

Navigation Aids

Contributed to regularity of service

, How did the Wright's bicycle business help their aviation ventures? - ✔ ✔ The bicycle shop funded
their projects. They also handcrafted their bicycles, which those crafting skills helped them in the
construction of their airplane.

How effective was the airship as a bomber? - ✔ ✔ It could carry large bomb loads, but it was a big,
low, slow target easily attacked by opposing forces

In what ways did the Montgolfier brothers and JAC Charles finance their balloon experiments? - ✔ ✔
The Montgolfier brothers were supported by their family who were wealthy papermakers. JAC Charles
was funded by a grant and from ticket sales to see balloon ascensions.

Of the two sources pertaining to Walter Wellman that are listed in the bibliography, which one is a
primary source and which is a secondary? - ✔ ✔ "The Aerial Age" is primary

Orville Wright won the 1913 Collier Trophy for what achievement in aeronautics? - ✔ ✔
Development of the automatic stabilizer

Regarding airships during World War 1, who made airship raids against whom - and why? - ✔ ✔
Germany against Belgium and France. Airships were great for reconnaissance and dropping bombs

What affect did the Armistice and the various peace treaties have on aircraft production and military
aviation? - ✔ ✔ The government cancelled orders for aircraft, some companies/factories went out of
business

What aircraft contributed to the growth of private flying during the Golden Age of Aviation? - ✔ ✔
Light airplanes similar to those that crossed the atlantic and flew around the world

What airlines competed for international routes during the late twenties and the thirties? - ✔ ✔
Lufthansa, Iberia, Hillman, British Airways, Eastern, United, Pan Am

What did the Wright brothers accomplish in 1903? - ✔ ✔ The first manned, powered flight

What wartime technological developments contributed to the fighter as a military type of airplane? - ✔
✔ Mounted machine guns, wireless transmissions to ground personnel for advice on where to drop
bombs, radios installed in aircraft, forward firing where the machine gun fires in between propeller
rotations

What was a four-course radio? - ✔ ✔ A low to medium frequency facility that marked four courses
to and from stations constructed along Federal Airways. It allowed a pilot to determine whether he/she
was on course.

What was a Zeppelin? - ✔ ✔ A large rigid airship with aluminum frame and multiple hydrogen gas
compartments. Big enough to hold bombs, arms, and crew, and could fly in bad weather.

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