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| Who was the first to earn the title of ace? |
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| What did Max Immelman's death mark the end of? |
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Pg. 157
Unofficial end of Fokker scourge |
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| Who was the leading ace of WWII? |
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Pg. 160
Eddie Rickenbacker |
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Pg. 162
"rollers"
French student trainer aircraft
Clipped wings
Taxi via the rudder |
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| Eventually, British pilots were sent into combat with how many hours of flight training? |
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Pg. 164
German Aerial blockade |
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| What was the Junkers J1 made out of? |
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Pg. 169
Iron and corrugated metal |
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| In 1915, who was one of the Curtiss' best customers? |
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| What was the Kettering Bug? |
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| What was staged at Moscow in 1924? |
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Pg. 196
first exhibition on the prospect of interplanetary space travel |
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| What percentage of U.S. factory space allotted to aviation was redeployed by 1919? |
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| What did Rudyard Kipling prophesy regarding lighter-than-air craft? |
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Pg. 203
They would completely supercede the airplane by 2000 |
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| How many Junkers F13s were produced? |
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| According to Lester Gardner, passengers should come down feeling what? |
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Pg. 217
perfectly safe and normal experience they would like to repeat |
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| What was the impact of Britain's air power against the "Mad Mullah"? |
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Pg. 223
Mohammed Abdullah Hansan
RAF drove them out of the country (Somalia) during WWI |
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| In 1919, what did Billy Mitchell say had little distinction in the air age? |
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Pg. 229
the distinction between combatants and noncombatants |
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| What did the Morrow Board reject? |
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Pg. 234
Unified Air Force and a single air ministry governing both military and civil aviation |
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| In 1929, what fear did Jimmy Doolittle carry out? |
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Pg. 238
took off, flew, and landed using instruments alone |
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| What did Henry Ford hope the Reliability tour would do for U.S. aviation? |
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Pg. 240
Establish aviation in America
Reliable
Come of age |
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| What did the USS Langley represent? |
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Pg. 242
First American carrier
Smaller, lighter, and easier to maintain engines would have a special appeal to engineers planning carrier based aircraft |
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| For Daniel Guggenheim, what was the "model airline"? |
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Pg. 251
Weather forecasting facility
improved radio equipment
finest equipment |
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| Lyman Briggs and Paul Heyl developed what? |
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Pg. 261
True magnetic North "compass" |
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| How did Charles Lindbergh combine racism with aviation? |
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Pg. 263
doubt ability of Allies to triumph over Germany
Accepted award from Nazis
Identified as a Jew
Lindbergh had once applauded aviation as a tool for defending Western Civilization against the black, brown, and yellow peoples of the world |
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| Why did Lindbergh speak out against supersonic flight? |
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Pg. 264
Damage to the upper atmosphere |
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| What company sold 100% of its aircraft to the U.S. military? |
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| Between 1924-1933, what year did year U.S. aircraft production peak? |
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| According to one pilot, an airman died every how many days between 1930-1935? |
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| What occurred that convinced the U.S. that it needed a better air control system? |
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Pg. 276
1935, a Senator and 4 others died in crash in Missouri |
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| What did the Russians use the Maxim Gorky for? |
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Pg. 280
Long distance flight (altitude and range records)
Propaganda |
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| In 1933, what did Wiley Post do by himself? |
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Pg. 282
Flies around the world by himself |
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| Howard Hughes flew 14,672 miles in what flying time? |
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Pg. 284
91 hours 14 minutes |
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| Who was the only person to win the triple crown of air racing? |
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| What did the NAVY use to get aircraft in and out of a dirigible? |
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Pg. 297
Willy Messerschmitt |
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| In 1939, 80% of U.S. aircraft were what? |
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Pg. 300
two person, closed cabin, high wing monoplanes with a single engine |
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| What did Eugene Vidal mean by having a "New Deal for Aviation"? |
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Pg. 302
subsidize the development of the "Poor Man's Plane" |
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| Why was Helen Richey forced out of the cockpit? |
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Pg. 309
all male pilots union |
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| According to William Powell, when would blacks fly as free men? |
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Pg. 310
never until planes are owned by Negroes |
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