AERO 1010 - TEST 1 QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS
6 Aerospace Concentrations - Answers - Aviation Management
Flight Dispatch
Professional Pilot
Maintenance Management
Technology
Unmanned Aircraft Systems
"Add On" - Air Traffic Control
Who is the aerospace department chair? - Answers - Dr. Beckman
What is AABI? - Answers - Aviation Accreditation Board International
What are the Aerospace labs at MTSU? - Answers - ATC Simulation Lab
Technology Lab
NASA Focus Lab
UAS Lab
Legend of Wan Hoo - Answers - Wanted to go to the moon - attached 47 rockets to his
wicker chair - never seen again
Leonardo Da Vinci - Answers - His ideas were discovered after his death. Flying
machine "ornithopter" - contributed ideas of center of gravity & center of pressure
Toricelli, Von Guericke, & Pascal - Answers - European scientists
- discovered atmosphere is a pressure
- pressure decreases with altitude
Laurenco de Gusmao - Answers - invented the hot air balloon early 1700's - just the
concept
Montgolfier Brothers - Answers - Hot air balloon
- sheep, duck , & rooster first passengers to fly
- 1783, first men to fly - 25 min. and 5 miles
First successful rigid dirigible - Answers - Ferdinand von Zeppelin: LZ-1
Sir George Cayley - Answers - "Father of Aviation"
- 1st airplane pioneer in 19th century
- 4 forces of flight
, Samuel Pierpont Langley - Answers - "Langley Aerodome"
- $50,000 grant from Congress, launched from catapult in the Potomac River
- crashed both times
Wright Brothers - Answers - Dec. 17, 1903
Kill Devil Hills, NC
What are the Wright Brothers accredited for? - Answers - The first successful sustained,
powered, controlled, heavier-than-air flight.
What was the name of the Wright Brothers' aircraft? - Answers - Wright Flyer
Who was the Wright Brothers mechanic? - Answers - Charles Taylor
Otto Lilienthal - Answers - "Father of MODERN Aviation"
- powered flight engines linked to wing tips for flapping
- "Sacrifices must be made" - then crashed & died
Octave Chanute - Answers - studied aviation history, work of others, combined it all in a
book
"Progress in Flying Machines"
John Montgomery - Answers - -Built plane in garage at night with his brother
- Flew at night
- Balloon lifted glider, had to cut tether to fly
Thomas Selfridge - Answers - This was the first person to die in a powered aircraft.
Orville Wright flew the machine and survived
- fractured his skull
Glenn Curtiss - Answers - "Fastest Man on Earth" - motorcycle engines
-first flight over 1 km
-builds aircraft, leads to Wright/Curtis Feud over rights to aileron
Calbraith Perry Rodgers - Answers - Vin Fiz Flyer - 49 days
- First person to fly US coast to coast in airplane
The Aerial Experiment Association members and purpose - Answers - McCurdy,
Baldwin (recent graduates), Alexander Graham Bell (leader), Glenn Cutiss, Thomas
Selfridge - to develop a heavier than air flying machine
Charles Taylor - Answers - First aviation mechanic in powered flight - Wright Flyer
Harriet Quimby - Answers - - 1st licensed female pilot
- 1st woman to fly solo across the English Channel
ANSWERS
6 Aerospace Concentrations - Answers - Aviation Management
Flight Dispatch
Professional Pilot
Maintenance Management
Technology
Unmanned Aircraft Systems
"Add On" - Air Traffic Control
Who is the aerospace department chair? - Answers - Dr. Beckman
What is AABI? - Answers - Aviation Accreditation Board International
What are the Aerospace labs at MTSU? - Answers - ATC Simulation Lab
Technology Lab
NASA Focus Lab
UAS Lab
Legend of Wan Hoo - Answers - Wanted to go to the moon - attached 47 rockets to his
wicker chair - never seen again
Leonardo Da Vinci - Answers - His ideas were discovered after his death. Flying
machine "ornithopter" - contributed ideas of center of gravity & center of pressure
Toricelli, Von Guericke, & Pascal - Answers - European scientists
- discovered atmosphere is a pressure
- pressure decreases with altitude
Laurenco de Gusmao - Answers - invented the hot air balloon early 1700's - just the
concept
Montgolfier Brothers - Answers - Hot air balloon
- sheep, duck , & rooster first passengers to fly
- 1783, first men to fly - 25 min. and 5 miles
First successful rigid dirigible - Answers - Ferdinand von Zeppelin: LZ-1
Sir George Cayley - Answers - "Father of Aviation"
- 1st airplane pioneer in 19th century
- 4 forces of flight
, Samuel Pierpont Langley - Answers - "Langley Aerodome"
- $50,000 grant from Congress, launched from catapult in the Potomac River
- crashed both times
Wright Brothers - Answers - Dec. 17, 1903
Kill Devil Hills, NC
What are the Wright Brothers accredited for? - Answers - The first successful sustained,
powered, controlled, heavier-than-air flight.
What was the name of the Wright Brothers' aircraft? - Answers - Wright Flyer
Who was the Wright Brothers mechanic? - Answers - Charles Taylor
Otto Lilienthal - Answers - "Father of MODERN Aviation"
- powered flight engines linked to wing tips for flapping
- "Sacrifices must be made" - then crashed & died
Octave Chanute - Answers - studied aviation history, work of others, combined it all in a
book
"Progress in Flying Machines"
John Montgomery - Answers - -Built plane in garage at night with his brother
- Flew at night
- Balloon lifted glider, had to cut tether to fly
Thomas Selfridge - Answers - This was the first person to die in a powered aircraft.
Orville Wright flew the machine and survived
- fractured his skull
Glenn Curtiss - Answers - "Fastest Man on Earth" - motorcycle engines
-first flight over 1 km
-builds aircraft, leads to Wright/Curtis Feud over rights to aileron
Calbraith Perry Rodgers - Answers - Vin Fiz Flyer - 49 days
- First person to fly US coast to coast in airplane
The Aerial Experiment Association members and purpose - Answers - McCurdy,
Baldwin (recent graduates), Alexander Graham Bell (leader), Glenn Cutiss, Thomas
Selfridge - to develop a heavier than air flying machine
Charles Taylor - Answers - First aviation mechanic in powered flight - Wright Flyer
Harriet Quimby - Answers - - 1st licensed female pilot
- 1st woman to fly solo across the English Channel
