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| First human flight. When and by whom? |
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| 500b.c. Daedalus and Icarus. |
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| Aristotle. It takes a force of energy to stay in the air. As long as the force is there the object will stay afloat. Ex. with feather. |
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| Philponus. Energy source can be taken away and a residual force will stay with the item for a period of time. Ex. an Arrow. |
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| Built the first serious flying machine. |
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| For every action there's an equal and opposite reaction. |
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Came up with studying gasses and the flow of gasses. Shape of wing creates the Bernoulli effect. Slow (low pressure) on the botton, fast (high pressure) on the top.
Bernoulli + Newton= liftoff (air pressure+lift=liftoff.) |
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| Age of Ballooning. Paper makers in Frac. Studied why ashes float above the fire, created the hot air balloon. French revolution ended the interest in balloons. |
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| Identified the names of certain forces: drag, lift, thrust. |
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| Worked on windmills and developed a table of different air pressures. |
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| Started building gliders, made over 2000 successful gliding flights. |
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| First bridge of information from Europe to America. 1st Great historian of aviation. He wrote Progress in Flying Machines. |
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| Secretary of the Smithsonian Institute. Produced small gliders powered by petrol and steam engines. Was asked to produce a petrol powered glider for the Spanish American war. |
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Lateral Axis: Pitch; controlled by elevators.
Vertical Axis: Yaw; controlled by rudders.
Longitudinal Axis; Roll; controlled by ailerons. |
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| Who were the first people to develop and use wind tunnels? |
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| What did the Wright Brothers revise the Smeden formula too? |
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| What was the name of the place the Wright Brothers tested their first glider? |
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| Creates small lightweight engines. Set the world speed record of 136mph |
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| Aerial Experiment Association. Formed by Alexander Graham Bell. Formed their first place called the Red Wing, which flies for 318 ft. |
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| Who got first recognition of 1st flight? |
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| In 1909 flies his monoplane across the English Channel |
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| Balloonist in army. First aircraft fatality. |
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| French air shows. Brought plane to LA air show. |
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| 1st trans-American flight. |
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| Did air shows and loop-de-loops. |
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| First University that shows interest in flight? |
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| National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics set up by the government. |
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| How many pilots die in WWI? How many in training accidents? |
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| 14000 die in WWI, about 8000 in training accidents. |
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| LIfe expectancy of a pilot in 1916, 1917? |
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| Shoot down 5 planes or more. |
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| First country to mount machine guns to the front of their planes? The name of the gear propellor? |
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| Germany. Interrupter gear in the propellor. |
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| Billy Mitchell. Was the first of this for the United States. What did he design? Why should we not keep boats in this place? |
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| 1st US chief of staff or aircraft. Designed armor piercing bombs. Should not keep navy at harbor in Hawaii because the Japanese might attack. |
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| Gets the 1st female flying license in 1909 and does demostration flying. |
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| Harriet Quimby. What was she the first to get? What was she the first to do? What takes the spotlight off of her? |
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| 1st US Woman to get license. First woman to cross the English channel in 1912. Sinking of the titanic takes the spotlight off of her. |
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| WWI. Was primarily what type of war? What were planes primary jobs in WWI. What type of warfare were they involved in? |
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| Primarily a ground war. PLaces would fly over the battle ground and take out the enemy lines. They were used in gas warfare. |
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| 200 men who were volunteers to fly for the french in WWI. KNown as the Lafayette Flying Corps. |
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| Lafayette Escadrille. How many men? Made of of whom? How many victories? How many me did they lose? |
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| Approx. 38 men, all Americans. Had 34 battle victories. Lost 9 pilots. |
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| Lafayette Escadrille. Had first what? How many aces? What was their mascot and what were the mascots names? |
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| First African aviator. 11 Aces. 2 Grown lions as their mascot names Whiskey and Soda. |
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| M. Von Rickthofen 80 (Red Baron) |
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Lufbery 17 "Unsung Hero". Part of the Lafayette Escadrille. |
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| Great Britain's primary fighter plane? Male Delivery plane? |
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| Curtiss Jenny = Training Plane |
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| WWI Stats. How many people died? What was it's nickname? Who was the major loser? |
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| 26 Million people died. Called the great war. Russia was the major loser. |
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| Leftover WWI pilots traveled all over giving air shows. They crashed their planes into barns. |
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| Mildred Unger (Barnstormer) |
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| 10 year old who performed different stunts. |
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| 1st trans-atlantic crossing. Curtiss designed water-planes. NC-1,2,3,4. "N" became synonomous with American planes. |
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| 1918 designed the first air-mail service in the United States. Used DH$ planes. |
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| Limits the size of the German Army. Does not allow Germany to have an airforce. Forces Germany to pay for the cost of the war. |
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