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Spaatz Aerospace Latest Questions
and Graded Answers
Chinese and Flight
Ans: Emperor Shun escaped prison by donning the
work clothes of a bird
Kei Kung, Wan Hoo, Ki-Kung-Shi
100 BC- Invented the kite
900 AD- Invented gunpowder
1100 AD- Built simple rockets
Greece and Rome
Ans: Gods depicted with wings and pegasus
Icarus and Daedalus
Seal from Babylonia with King Etena on an eagle
Kai Kawus, King of Persia
Alexander the Great
Two Trends in History of Flight
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,Comprehensive Study 2 Up to Date Content
Ans: People have always had the desire to fly
Since people did not have the natural ability to fly
like birds, flight depended on their ability to make
machines to carry them aloft
Ornithopter
Ans: Designed by Leonardo da Vinci
Flying machines kept aloft and propelled by flapping
wings
Leonardo da Vinci
Ans: 1452-1519
First designs of parachute and helicopter
Importance of center of gravity, pressure, and
streamlining
Obsessed with the idea of man flying like birds
Ballast
Ans: Heavy substance used to control ascent and
descent
Francesco de Lana
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,Comprehensive Study 3 Up to Date Content
Ans: 1670, professor of math, Jesuit priest
Wrote about aerial ship carried by four large spheres
First scientific record of a vacuum balloon
Also wrote about military uses for balloons
Laurenco de Gusmao
Ans: 1709, Jesuit priest
Demonstrated a small hot air balloon for king of
Portugal
Henry Cavendish
Ans: 1766, English chemist
discovered flammable air (hydrogen)
Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier
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, Comprehensive Study 4 Up to Date Content
Ans: French
June 1783- Public demonstration of their hot air
balloon
19 September 1783- Presented balloon to King Louis
XVI and Marie Antoinette
First living passengers on the balloons- animals
21 November 1783- First men rode in the balloon
over Paris
J.A.C. Charles
Ans: Scientist hired by Montgolfier brothers
23 August 1783- Tested his balloon made from
rubberized silk and inflated with hydrogen
1 December 1783- First manned flight in a hydrogen
balloon
1783-1790
Ans: 76 flights in France during this time
Hydrogen balloon became more popular than hot air
balloon
Up to Date Content
Spaatz Aerospace Latest Questions
and Graded Answers
Chinese and Flight
Ans: Emperor Shun escaped prison by donning the
work clothes of a bird
Kei Kung, Wan Hoo, Ki-Kung-Shi
100 BC- Invented the kite
900 AD- Invented gunpowder
1100 AD- Built simple rockets
Greece and Rome
Ans: Gods depicted with wings and pegasus
Icarus and Daedalus
Seal from Babylonia with King Etena on an eagle
Kai Kawus, King of Persia
Alexander the Great
Two Trends in History of Flight
Up to Date Content
,Comprehensive Study 2 Up to Date Content
Ans: People have always had the desire to fly
Since people did not have the natural ability to fly
like birds, flight depended on their ability to make
machines to carry them aloft
Ornithopter
Ans: Designed by Leonardo da Vinci
Flying machines kept aloft and propelled by flapping
wings
Leonardo da Vinci
Ans: 1452-1519
First designs of parachute and helicopter
Importance of center of gravity, pressure, and
streamlining
Obsessed with the idea of man flying like birds
Ballast
Ans: Heavy substance used to control ascent and
descent
Francesco de Lana
Up to Date Content
,Comprehensive Study 3 Up to Date Content
Ans: 1670, professor of math, Jesuit priest
Wrote about aerial ship carried by four large spheres
First scientific record of a vacuum balloon
Also wrote about military uses for balloons
Laurenco de Gusmao
Ans: 1709, Jesuit priest
Demonstrated a small hot air balloon for king of
Portugal
Henry Cavendish
Ans: 1766, English chemist
discovered flammable air (hydrogen)
Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier
Up to Date Content
, Comprehensive Study 4 Up to Date Content
Ans: French
June 1783- Public demonstration of their hot air
balloon
19 September 1783- Presented balloon to King Louis
XVI and Marie Antoinette
First living passengers on the balloons- animals
21 November 1783- First men rode in the balloon
over Paris
J.A.C. Charles
Ans: Scientist hired by Montgolfier brothers
23 August 1783- Tested his balloon made from
rubberized silk and inflated with hydrogen
1 December 1783- First manned flight in a hydrogen
balloon
1783-1790
Ans: 76 flights in France during this time
Hydrogen balloon became more popular than hot air
balloon
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