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| 1. Why did the US win the Cold War? |
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| 2. Know these plane figures: |
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| Ailerons, Spoiler, Engine Pylon, Tail Plane, Elevator |
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| Boeings Chief test pilot for Jets |
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| 4. Best German Ace with 352 kills? |
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| 5. What were the 3 components of the airforce? |
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| SAC-Strategic Air Command, TAC- Tactical Air Command, MAC-Military Airlift Command |
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| 6. Who is the best U.S. Ace? |
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| Richard Bong with 40 kills |
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| 7. Who was the scientist that invented the U2 |
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| 8. What’s the speed of sound? |
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| 9. Who was killed testing an F80? |
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| 10. What was the name of the all Black Air Unit? |
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| Tuskegee Airmen; 992 go through the program |
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| 12. Who Developed engines before WWII in Britain? |
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| 13. When was Pearl Harbor? |
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| 14. What year was Battle of Britain? |
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| 15. What was the best fighter plane from the Battle of Britain? |
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| 16. Who broke the sound barrier? |
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| 17. What treaty was a cause of WWII |
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| 18. What did the treaty of Versailles do? |
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| , Put a bunch of reparations and costs on Germany that couldn’t be paid off. |
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| 19. How long did it take Germany to defeat Poland? |
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| 20. When was the invasion of Poland? |
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| 21. Who declared war on Germany and why? |
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| England and France when Germany invaded Poland. |
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| 22. What causes the U.S. to enter the war |
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| 23. Who replaces Chamberlin?Why? |
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| Churchill because Chamberlin geared towards negotiation and Churchill= “Never surrender” |
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| 24. Why does Germany stop attacks for 6 months in the beginning of the war? |
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| Germany felt they wouldn’t have to fight England, they hoped England would negotiate. |
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| 25. How many men did Great Britain send to help France? |
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| 26. When Germany pushed the 350,000 men back at Dunkirk, what was Hitlers mistake? |
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| He paused. He didn’t finish the men. It allowed England to send boats to rack up and save 340,000/350,000 men-later used in the North African Campaign |
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| 27. Germany leads the Battle of Britain with what tactics? |
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| 28. Why does Germany want to finish the Battle of Britain by Sept? |
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| Because they need to invade Russia by winter. |
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| 29. Who wins the Battle of Britain |
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| Britain, but barely; Almost loses all pilots |
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| He was a key player for the English who was in charge of British fighter command and saved 100 airplanes by encouraging Churchill to pull fighter support back from France. |
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| 31. Who was in charge of the German Luftwaffe? and a key player for Germany? |
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| 32. What was important for planes in the Battle of Britain |
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| Maneuverability (NOT Speed) |
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| 33. What plane played a huge role for Britain |
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| Hurricane-shot down 2/3 of German planes |
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| 34. What plane did Germany have and what was its fault |
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| Messerschmit 109; fault=doesn’t carry a lot of fuel |
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| 35. What does Britain use that Germany doesn’t to save fighter fuel? |
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| 36. What was the Junkars 87 and who did it belong to? |
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| German airplane designed specifically to scare enemy with piercing sound |
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| 37. Who was Arthur Harris? |
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| He wants to do night raids agains Berlin |
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| 38. What was Hitler’s intuition? |
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| Enraged about Harris killing civilians-decides to only bomb London to kill their civilians. |
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| Special machine used for highest command (Germany); England gets a hold of one and uses it to decode high command messages;US takes apart and duplicates it. |
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| Civilians that looked out for any planes and reported all info about them |
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| 41. When was Black Thursday? |
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| He wanted to bomb in daytime-bomb sites not civilians; around the clock bombing |
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| charge of all Army Airforces back in Washington |
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| 44. Who replaces Ira Eaker? |
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| Jimmy Doolittle; bombing raid on Tokyo, more aggressive |
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| 45. Who was Adolf Galland |
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| German airforce General in charge of German fighter command; very good; makes us reevaluate |
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| 46. What was the best fighter to come out of the war? |
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| P-51 Mustang; long, range, uses 1 gallon gas per minute, carries 400 gallons |
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| 47. What bombers gave us daytime bombing |
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| B-17=carries 10 people, B-24=boxcar looking |
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| Womens airforce service pilots, not combat, pick up and deliver planes, helps free men pilots to go to combat, 1084 people go through program |
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| 49. When do WASP women finally get veteran status? |
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| 50. What was the name of the German operational jet? |
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| Messerschmit 262; made 1400 of them; 540 mph |
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| 51. What jet did the English have |
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| Gloster Meteor;283 made;493 mph |
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| 52. What was the name of the new liquid rocket? |
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| Messerschmit Comet, 10 min fuel, 600mph, 30,000ft in 24 min |
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| 53. Who led the rocket program in North Germany? |
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| how old was Goddard when he headed the rocket program? |
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| 55. What were the 2 rockets Germany had? |
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| Vengence V1 and V2; V1=not pinpoint explosion; V2=5x the speed of sound, unstoppable Sept. 8,1944..first one fired |
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| 56. What was the Marshall Plan? |
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| By George Marshall; Plan to help rebuild our enemy after the war because WWI he won war but lost peace |
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| 57. What started the Cold War? |
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| Russia kept all they took over after war with Germany, pushed Russia back and then it starts |
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| 58. T/F: Aviation wins the war? |
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| False; we still need soldiers, infantry, etc. |
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| 59. What kind of religious structures did Japan have |
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| Emperor; he had to say it was okay to go to war |
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| 60. What is the Japanese mindset in war? |
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| No surrender-fight until the last man standing |
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| 61. Who were the 2 big winners of WWII |
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| 62. What was the Disarmament Conference |
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| US and England tell Japan they want ratio the amount of tonage of ships 3 to 5. |
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| 63. What is Japan’s manifest destiny |
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| 64. Who heads the Philippines and is never defeated? |
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| 65. Who invades Pearl Harbor in the practice? |
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| Admiral Yarneal with the Seratoga and Lexington |
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| 66. Who is the head of the Pearl Harbor operation |
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| 67. What was one cause of Pearl Harbor |
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| We provided Japan with 75-90% of their material supplies, but said they were being too ruthless, we gradually took away support. July 1941-stopped oil support |
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| 68. What group was setup in 1941 for the US? |
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| Flying Tigers; flying p-40s, fly for Chinese, but as civilians, don’t wear US uniforms |
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| 69. What was Japanese zero? |
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| Jap plane- better plane and pilots that US-light weight-, magnesium, fast, maneuverable, 2-3 US planes to beat 1 Jap Zero |
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| 70. What is the most successful raid in US history |
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| 71. Who was Admiral Nimitz |
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| In charge of naval forces in the Pacific |
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| 72. Who was in charge of the Army forces in Pacific |
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| 73. What was the Doolittle/Tokyo Raid? |
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| Fly B-25 Mitchell-take off aircraft carrier bomb Tokyo, then fly to China; 16 B-25s;causes Japan to rethink home security |
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| 74. Who headed the Battle of Midway? |
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| Yammamoto; Japan wants to control because its close to Hawaii |
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| 75. What was the Battle of Coral sea |
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| 76. What was the code of the Battle of Midway? |
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| 77. Who got to Midway first? |
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| 78. What was the order of the planes sent |
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| 1-Torpedo Planes,2- Dive bombers,3-Fighters |
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| 79. What battle was the turning point of the war in the Pacific? |
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| 80. What plane shot down Yammamoto? |
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| 81. What is the divine wind? |
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| Kamikaze; 3913 suicide bombers |
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| 82. What was the Manhattan Project? |
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| 83. What were used in Hiroshima? |
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| B29s; 21st bombing commands, every hit must be within 900ft of target |
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| 84. What unit trained for Hiroshima |
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| 85. Who was the Japanese woman radio commentator? |
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| 86. How many tons of TNT was in the atomic bomb |
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| 87. What B29 dropped the bomb? |
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| Enola Gay-Tibbits mother’s name |
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| 89. What was the 2nd city bombed on Aug 9th? |
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| 90. What ship was the surrender signed on |
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| 91. Who are the 2 super powers after WWII |
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| 92. What was the name of the 1st general jets? |
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| 93. Who was killed testing an F80? |
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| 94. What was the 2nd general jet? |
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| 95. What type of technology developed after the war? |
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| X1-X15 planes; explored speed and weight of planes |
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| 96. Who broke the speed of sound barrier? |
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| 97. Describe the propeller planes. |
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| Climb and take off fast, but limited on speed |
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| Takes off slow, climbs slow |
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| 99. What were the names of the atomic bombs? |
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| ? Little Boy-Hiroshima, Fat Man-Nagasaki |
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| 100. What was the first jet? |
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| De Havilland Comet, 1954-fall out of sky |
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| 101. What was the 2nd jet to revolutionize aviation? |
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| 102. When does Russia launch Sputnik? |
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| 103. When does the 1st man enter space |
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| April 12th, 1961 by Russia |
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| 104. What were the 3 project Approaches? |
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| Mercury-Put man in Space, Gemini-find out about Space, Apollo-put man on the Moon |
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| 105. Who circled the Earth 3 times? |
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| 106. How many projects did they have in Gemini? |
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| 107. How many Apollo missions? |
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| National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics |
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| 109. Whats NACA changed to? |
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| NASA- National Advisory Space Committee for Aeronautics |
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| 110. What is Charles Lindbergh like in WWII? |
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| 1st antiwar, After Pearl Harbor pro war |
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| Blackbird; Surveillance of Russia to take pictures flying at Mach 3+ |
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| 112. What 2 Space Shuttles blew up? |
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| 113. Name some spinoffs from Space program. |
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| . Velcro, Tang, Teflon, Styrofoam |
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| SuperSonic Transport-Concorde |
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| 115. What countries jump into SST race? |
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| US with Boeing 2707, Russia with T-U144, France with Concorde |
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| 116. How many people must planes carry at a Mach 2? |
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| 16=Bunt= causes engines to stall=plane without power; a 1G |
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| 118. How many Concordes built? |
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| 119. Who was Jackie Cochran? |
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| President of WASP, 1st woman to fly bomber across the Atlantic, 1st woman to break sound barrier |
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| Executive Director of WASP, Squad Commander |
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| 121. What scientist invented U2? `` |
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| 122. How many public airports are there in the US? |
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| 123. What is navigation of the future? |
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| 124. What was the 1st battle fought only by plane? |
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| 125. What was the result of de-regulation |
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| 126. What’s the cost to be a Rec-pilot? |
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| He was famous for Helicopters |
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