AERO1010 TEST 1 QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS
Name the programs of study and add-on offered in the Aerospace department at MTSU
- Answers - Aviation Mgmt
Flight Dispatch
Maintenance Mgmt
Professional Pilot
Technology
UAS- Unmanned Aircraft and Systems
Air Traffic Control (Add-on)
Who is the department chair of MTSU Aerospace? - Answers - Dr. Wendy Beckman
Name the MTSU Aerospace labs - Answers - ATC Simulation
Technology
NASA Focus
UAS
What is the legend of Wan Hoo? - Answers - Strapped 47 rockets to a chair trying to
reach the moon, his body was never found and is believed to be the man on the moon
Who discovered the center of gravity and the center of pressure? - Answers - Da Vinci
Who built and flew the first rigid dirigible? - Answers - Von Zeppelin
Who is the "Father of Aviation"? - Answers - Sir George Cayley
Who discovered the 4 forces of flight? - Answers - Sir George Cayley
Who is the "Father of Modern Aviation"? - Answers - Otto Lilienthal
When and where was the first successful sustained, powered, controlled, heavier than
air flight? - Answers - December 17, 1903 in Kill Devil Hills, NC
Who was the Wright Brother's mechanic? - Answers - Charles Taylor
Who was the first man to lose his life in a powered airplane? - Answers - Lt. Thomas
Selfridge
Describe what happen in Wright vs. Curtiss - Answers - Patent war over method of flight
control
ANSWERS
Name the programs of study and add-on offered in the Aerospace department at MTSU
- Answers - Aviation Mgmt
Flight Dispatch
Maintenance Mgmt
Professional Pilot
Technology
UAS- Unmanned Aircraft and Systems
Air Traffic Control (Add-on)
Who is the department chair of MTSU Aerospace? - Answers - Dr. Wendy Beckman
Name the MTSU Aerospace labs - Answers - ATC Simulation
Technology
NASA Focus
UAS
What is the legend of Wan Hoo? - Answers - Strapped 47 rockets to a chair trying to
reach the moon, his body was never found and is believed to be the man on the moon
Who discovered the center of gravity and the center of pressure? - Answers - Da Vinci
Who built and flew the first rigid dirigible? - Answers - Von Zeppelin
Who is the "Father of Aviation"? - Answers - Sir George Cayley
Who discovered the 4 forces of flight? - Answers - Sir George Cayley
Who is the "Father of Modern Aviation"? - Answers - Otto Lilienthal
When and where was the first successful sustained, powered, controlled, heavier than
air flight? - Answers - December 17, 1903 in Kill Devil Hills, NC
Who was the Wright Brother's mechanic? - Answers - Charles Taylor
Who was the first man to lose his life in a powered airplane? - Answers - Lt. Thomas
Selfridge
Describe what happen in Wright vs. Curtiss - Answers - Patent war over method of flight
control
