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Airplanes, balloons, dirigibles, and airships flew __________ missions; the crew looked at the enemy, recorded their position, and reported during the beginning of WWI - correct answer reconnaissance Soon Germany developed the airship as a __________, though these Zeppelins prove most effective throughout the war as reconnaissance vehicles - correct answer bomber Germany launched its first Zeppelin raid against ___________ in January of 1915 - correct answer England The German Navy launched a total of 53 __________ against England - correct answer airship missions The German airships would also attack __________ at sea - correct answer battleships and subs By 1917, the Zeppelin factory took only __________ weeks to build an airship - correct answer six The overall war experience demonstrated the failure of the airship as a __________ and its effectiveness for __________ - correct answer land bomber; Navy reconnaissance Great Britain started the war with __________ lighter-than-air craft - correct answer four The ____________ or kite balloon, was a balloon tethered to the ground or to a naval vessel on water - correct answer Drachen The __________ was used for observation, sector reconnaissance, artillery spotting, battery ranging, and verification of demolition - correct answer kite balloon Most Air Forces entered WWI with aircraft and crews suitable for only __________ - correct answer reconnaissance, observation, and scouting missions __________ had the leading Air Force among the allies - correct answer France Despite the large number of aircraft available, Russia had maybe __________ airplanes that were combat ready and fewer than 100 pilots at the start of the war - correct answer fifty Some Americans went to __________ or __________ to enlist before the US entered the war, ofter under assumed names to avoid losing citizenship - correct answer Canada; Great Britain The LaFayette Escadrille was a group of men that trained and served as an __________ unit within the French Foreign Legion - correct answer American One pilot who did not transfer back to the US units was the first Black American military aviator, ___________ - correct answer Eugene Bullard In the fall of 1914, after the war started, Britain began expanding the __________ - correct answer Royal Flying Corps In October of 1914, the two man crew of a French Voisin Biplane shot down a two man German Aviatik Biplane. This was the first ___________ - correct answer confirmed air-to-air kill __________ is the practice in which the aircraft and artillery units cooperate during a battle - correct answer artillery spotting Early in the war, military forces tried various methods of air to ground communications. One of the simpler methods was dropping __________ connected to long streamers - correct answer message bags ___________ developed and produced a machine gun that was synchronized with the propeller by an interrupted gear - correct answer Anthony Fokker Manfred von Richtelfen became known as the __________ - correct answer Red Baron Of all the combat nations, __________ dropped the most bombs during the war - correct answer France WWI was a grand __________ to the aviation industry - correct answer stimulant __________ was the leading producer of aircraft before and during WWI - correct answer France ___________ developed as WWI was fought and the combatants selected what designs would be appropriate to their respective and changing needs - correct answer standardization The British Government's aircraft manufacturing factory was known as ___________ - correct answer Royal Aircraft Factory The highlight of the American production program was __________ - correct answer Curtiss The aircraft production program needed spruce for propellors and much more. Spruce was valued for its __________ and ___________ - correct answer lightness; strength On May 8th, 1919, three planes left __________ for the first transatlantic flight - correct answer Rockaway, Long Island In may 1919, __________ men completed the first transatlantic flight aboard NC-4 - correct answer six The Daily Mail competition attracted _________ entries - correct answer eleven Alcock and Brown landed in the Galway region of __________, 16 hours and 27 minutes and 1980 miles from their starting point - correct answer Ireland In addition to flights across the Atlantic Ocean in 1919, Lieutenant Ross Smith, his brother lieutenant Keith Smith, and two mechanics flew from ____________ - correct answer England to Australia The ___________ was the first rigid airship made in the US - correct answer Shenandoah As the various restrictions on German aviation were lifted, the Zeppelin Company began making the LZ 127, better known as the __________ - correct answer Graf Zeppelin After WWI, Germany revived __________ as a major aeronautical activity - correct answer gliding Barnstorming became popular in many countries, but it became a passion in ___________ - correct answer the United States The __________ was the barnstormer's airplane of choice - correct answer Curtiss Jenny To improve its plight in the post war era, the ___________ promoted aviation and lobbied for more support for military aviation - correct answer Army Air Service The aircraft used for the Army World Flight, the _________ was a converted Nay torpedo bomber - correct answer Douglas World Cruiser On April 6, 1924, the Army World Flight took off from _________ near Seattle - correct answer Lake Washington Lowel Smith and Leslie Arnold in the _________ and Erik Nelson and John Harding in the __________ landed back at Sand Point airfield after logging 363 hours and 7 minutes of flight time, thus completing the first round the world flight on September 28th, 1924 - correct answer Chicago; New Orleans One of the most vocal proponents and clearest critics of military aviation in the post war period was ___________ - correct answer General William Mitchel During WWI, the fastest airplanes exceeded the speed of the fastest _________ for the first time - correct answer automobiles ___________ teams raced towards the North Pole in 1926 - correct answer three French industrialist Pierre-Georges Latécoére began planning a commercial ____________ venture even before the armistice - correct answer airmail Despite being hamstrung during the postwar period, _________ produced many airlines - correct answer Germany