AEROSPACE CUMULATIVE STUDY
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,Air & Space Power - ANSWERThe ability to take advantage of air and space to move
people, cargo, and information.
Emperor Shun - ANSWER"_________________________ donn[ed] the work clothes of
a bird."
Kei Kung - ANSWERChinese god of Thunder and Lightning:
Ki-Kung-Shi - ANSWERThis man supposedly built a flying chariot.
Kite - ANSWERAt about 500 BC, the Chinese invented this:
Gunpowder - ANSWERAbout 900 AD, the Chinese invented ______________.
Rockets - ANSWERBy 1100, the Chinese were using gunpowder to power simple
_____________.
Wan Hoo - ANSWERA legendary account of ___________________ tells the story of a
man who strapped 47 rockets to a chair and attempted to fly to the moon.
Francesco de Lana - ANSWERa Jesuit priest who wrote a proposal for an aerial ship,
which was, in theory, close to the right idea of hot air balloons. he also discussed the
need for ballast, controlled ascent and descent, and military uses for balloons.
Laurenco de Gusmao - ANSWERA Jesuit priest credited with the invention of the hot air
balloon in 1709.
1766 - ANSWERHenry Cavendish discovered a gas, now called hydrogen, that he
called "flammable air."
Daedulus and Icarus - ANSWER________________________ built wings from wax
and feathers to escape from King Minos of Crete.
Leonardo da Vinci - ANSWERGreat Italian artist, architect, painter, and man of science
made the first experiments on the field of aviation. 1452-1519
Ornithopter - ANSWERAn aircraft propelled by flapping wings, designed by Leonardo
da Vinci.
Torricelli, Von Guericke, and Pascal - ANSWERThese three men made discoveries in
the study of the atmosphere such as the fact that the atmosphere is a fluid, atmospheric
pressure decreases with altitude, the invention of the barometer, and the invention of
the air pump.
,Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier - ANSWERTwo papermakers from Annonay, France
who first achieved manned flight.
June 5, 1783 - ANSWERFirst flight by the Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon.
November 10, 1798 - ANSWERJeanne-Genevieve Garnerin, wife of Andre-Jacques
Garnerin, became one of the earliest women to fly in a balloon.
October 12, 1799 - ANSWERJeanne-Genevieve Garnerin became the first woman to
parachute from a balloon.
Madeleine Sophie Blanchard - ANSWERThe first woman to be killed in a ballooning
accident in 1819.
November 21, 1783 - ANSWERThe Montgolfier brothers' second flight with a sheep, a
rooster, and a duck inside the balloon.
Pilatre de Rozier and Marquis d'Arlandes - ANSWERFirst men to fly in a lighter-than-air
aircraft over Paris, France.
August 27, 1793 - ANSWERJAC Charles used hydrogen to float a hot air balloon.
December 1, 1783 - ANSWERFirst manned flight in a hydrogen balloon.
76 - ANSWERBetween 1783 and 1790, _____ Flights were recorded in France alone.
1793 - ANSWERFrance formed an air arm to their Army, beginning to use balloons for
reconnaissance.
1797, Andre-Jacques Garnerin - ANSWERThe first parachute jump from 3000 feet.
January 7, 1785 - ANSWERJean Pierre Blanchard and Dr. John Jeffries flew across the
English Channel.
January 9, 1793 - ANSWERFirst balloon flight in the United States
Thaddeus S. C. Lowe - ANSWEROrganized Balloon Signal Service of the Union Army.
Dirigible - ANSWERlighter than air aircraft that can be steered and propelled.
Henri Giffard - ANSWER1852, he is credited for inventing the first successful dirigible.
The LaFrance - ANSWERThe first airship powered by electric motors, built by Charles
Renard and AC Krebs in 1884.
Paul Haenlein - ANSWERIn 1872, he built a dirigible with an internal-combustion
engine.
, Santos Dumont - ANSWERThe first man to build and fly gasoline-powered dirigibles.
Air Pump - ANSWERInvented by Torricelli, Von Geuricke, and Pascal to study vacuums
Airspeed Indicator - ANSWERInforms the pilot of the speed through the air in terms of
miles per hour and/or knots
Air Superiority - ANSWERComplete Command of the Air
Air Traffic Control - ANSWERConcerned with keeping aircraft safely separated to
prevent accidents.
Ferdinand von Zeppelin - ANSWERJuly 1900, this man built and flew the world's first
rigid dirigible, the LZ-1, with a steel/aluminum framework.
The Deutschland - ANSWERThe LZ-7, the world's first commerical airship on June 22,
1910.
Absolute Charging - ANSWEROccurs when the whole aircraft is charged.
Acceleration - ANSWERWhen a body is subjected to the application of force over time.
Ace - ANSWERA pilot who shot down five enemy aircraft.
Active Communications Satellite - ANSWERA satellite, such as the Courier 1B, that
received signals from ground stations, amplified them and then rebroadcasted the
signals to receiving stations on Earth
Advection - ANSWERLateral heat transfer that is important in the global circulation of
air.
Advection Fog - ANSWERFog formed when wind blows moist air over a cold surface
and the surface cools the air to its dew-point temperature.
Aeronaut - ANSWERBalloonist
Aeronautics - ANSWERThe science and art of flying through the atmosphere.
Aerospace - ANSWERA compound term used to describe the atmosphere and space
as one medium.
Ailerons - ANSWERSmall flaps on the wings of aircraft that help control the plane.
Airfoil - ANSWERParts of an airplane, such as wings, tail surfaces, and propellers,
designed to cause a dynamic reaction from the air through which it moves.