CAPR 70 1 POWERED FLIGHT ACTUAL
TEST QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE
ANSWER KEY
●● Octave Chanute
Answer: his glider had movable wings and he inspired the Wright
Brothers
●● Montgolfier Brothers
Answer: famous French balloonists
●● Otto Lilienthal
Answer: over 2000 successful glider flights
●● Wright Brothers
Answer: powered flight in 1903
●● Alberto Santos Dumont
Answer: known for airship flights and built a plane with a box like
elevator giving birth to canards
●● Samuel Langly
,Answer: built the aerodrome
●● Lt. Thomas Selfridge
Answer: First person to perish in powered aircraft crash
●● Baroness Raymonde de Laroche
Answer: First woman pilot to be granted a license internationally
●● Harriet Quimby
Answer: First American licensed female pilot (also first woman to cross
English Channel. Killed in flying accident in 1912)
●● Sikorsky
Answer: his plane has the first airborne toilet but he is better known for
his rotorcraft
●● Ferdinand von Zeppelin
Answer: German airship builder
●● Frank Whittle
Answer: first jet engine
●● Charles Taylor
,Answer: wright brothers mechanic, built the successful engine for first
powered flight
●● Clyde Cessna
Answer: flew (and crashed) the Silverwing, and then swore he'd never
have another thing to do with airplanes
●● Olive Ann and Walter Beech
Answer: produced the legendary Bonanza (longest continuously
produced airplane)
●● Al Mooney
Answer: Famous designs have a forward swept tail
●● William Piper and C.G. Taylor
Answer: without whom the J-3 Cub would not be around
●● Howard Hughes
Answer: crafted the largest wooden aircraft affectionately known as the
"Spruce Goose"
●● William E. Boeing
, Answer: born in Detroit, Michigan, and founded one of the largest
aircraft manufacturing businesses in North America
●● Manfred von Richthofen
Answer: known as the Red Baron, he was a notorious German pilot
●● Eddie Rickenbacker
Answer: race car driver turned WWI ace for the US
●● Tuskegee Airmen
Answer: first black fighter squadron of the US armed forces known as
the Red Tails
●● Charles Lindbergh
Answer: took the Spirit of St. Louis from New York to Paris for first
solo transatlantic flight (famous for his child being kidnapped)
●● Amelia Earhart
Answer: first woman to do solo transatlantic flight
●● Baroness Raymonde de Laroche
Answer: first woman pilot to be granted a license to fly internationally
TEST QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE
ANSWER KEY
●● Octave Chanute
Answer: his glider had movable wings and he inspired the Wright
Brothers
●● Montgolfier Brothers
Answer: famous French balloonists
●● Otto Lilienthal
Answer: over 2000 successful glider flights
●● Wright Brothers
Answer: powered flight in 1903
●● Alberto Santos Dumont
Answer: known for airship flights and built a plane with a box like
elevator giving birth to canards
●● Samuel Langly
,Answer: built the aerodrome
●● Lt. Thomas Selfridge
Answer: First person to perish in powered aircraft crash
●● Baroness Raymonde de Laroche
Answer: First woman pilot to be granted a license internationally
●● Harriet Quimby
Answer: First American licensed female pilot (also first woman to cross
English Channel. Killed in flying accident in 1912)
●● Sikorsky
Answer: his plane has the first airborne toilet but he is better known for
his rotorcraft
●● Ferdinand von Zeppelin
Answer: German airship builder
●● Frank Whittle
Answer: first jet engine
●● Charles Taylor
,Answer: wright brothers mechanic, built the successful engine for first
powered flight
●● Clyde Cessna
Answer: flew (and crashed) the Silverwing, and then swore he'd never
have another thing to do with airplanes
●● Olive Ann and Walter Beech
Answer: produced the legendary Bonanza (longest continuously
produced airplane)
●● Al Mooney
Answer: Famous designs have a forward swept tail
●● William Piper and C.G. Taylor
Answer: without whom the J-3 Cub would not be around
●● Howard Hughes
Answer: crafted the largest wooden aircraft affectionately known as the
"Spruce Goose"
●● William E. Boeing
, Answer: born in Detroit, Michigan, and founded one of the largest
aircraft manufacturing businesses in North America
●● Manfred von Richthofen
Answer: known as the Red Baron, he was a notorious German pilot
●● Eddie Rickenbacker
Answer: race car driver turned WWI ace for the US
●● Tuskegee Airmen
Answer: first black fighter squadron of the US armed forces known as
the Red Tails
●● Charles Lindbergh
Answer: took the Spirit of St. Louis from New York to Paris for first
solo transatlantic flight (famous for his child being kidnapped)
●● Amelia Earhart
Answer: first woman to do solo transatlantic flight
●● Baroness Raymonde de Laroche
Answer: first woman pilot to be granted a license to fly internationally
