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Aviators
You Gotta Know These Aviators
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Business operated by the Wright Brothers in Dayton, Ohio | Bicycle repair shop |
| The Wright Brothers created and refined these using a wind tunnel | Gliders |
| Date of the first successful, powered, heavier-than-air, manned airplane flight | December 17, 1903 |
| Pilot of the Flyer I for its first 12-second flight | Orville Wright |
| Location of the Flyer I flight | Kill Devil Hills near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina |
| Wright brother who stayed aloft for 59 seconds on the fourth flight | Wilbur Wright |
| Aviator who made the first non-stop, solo, trans-Atlantic flight in May 1927 | Charles Lindbergh |
| Name of Lindbergh's single-engine Ryan aircraft | Spirit of St. Louis |
| Lindbergh's takeoff location | Roosevelt Field on Long Island |
| Lindbergh's landing location | Le Bourget Field in Paris |
| Duration of Lindbergh's flight in hours | 33½ hours |
| In 1929, Charles Lindbergh married this person | Anne Morrow |
| In 1932, this "Crime of the Century" occured | kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh's son |
| Man convicted and executed for the Lindbergh baby kidnapping | Bruno Hauptmann |
| Committee Lindbergh was active with before WWII, urging US neutrality | America First Committee |
| Most famous female aviator | Amelia Earhart |
| In June1937, Earhart embarked on an around-the-world flight with this person | Fred Noonan |
| Type of plane Earhart used for her around-the-world flight | Twin-engine Lockheed Electra |
| Leg of the journey where Earhart and Noonan disappeared | Between Lae, New Guinea, and Howland Island |
| WWII aviator who earned “ace in a day” status | Chuck Yeager |
| On October 14, 1947, this aviator became the first pilot to exceed the speed of sound in level flight | Chuck Yeager |
| Plane Yeager piloted when he broke the sound barrier | Bell X-1 |
| Nickname of Yeager's plane, in tribute to his wife | Glamorous Glennis |
| Author whose book The Right Stuff profiled Chuck Yeager | Tom Wolfe |
| Aviator known for his speed records, aircraft design, and eccentricities | Howard Hughes |
| 2004 film about Howard Hughes | The Aviator |
| Hughes' most famous plane, a massive wooden plane with the record for longest wingspan | H-4 Hercules ("Spruce Goose") |
| In 1947, this aircraft made its lone, one-minute flight | "Spruce Goose" |
| Aviator who, with navigator Harold Gatty, first completed a circumnavigation of the globe in 1931 | Wiley Post |
| Name of Wiley Post's aircraft | Winnie Mae |
| Book written by Post and Gatty about their trip | Around the World in Eight Days |
| In 1933, this person became the first solo pilot to complete an around-the-world trip | Wiley Post |
| Post was possibly the first to encounter and use this | The jet stream |
| Location where Post crashed and died with humorist Will Rogers | Near Point Barrow, Alaska |
| Aviator who led the "Doolittle Raid" in April 1942 | Jimmy Doolittle |
| World-record speed achieved by Doolittle as a race pilot in 1932 | 296 miles per hour |
| Aircraft carrier used to launch B-25 bombers for the Doolittle Raid | USS Hornet |
| There were 16 = B-25 bombers in this raid | Doolittle Raid |
| Air Force commanded by Doolittle that launched massive bombing raids against Germany | Eighth Air Force |
| Better known as the "Red Baron" | Manfred von Richthofen |
| This aviator was credited with shooting down 80 enemy aircraft | Red Baron (Manfred von Richtofen) |
| Richthofen's personal command, known as "Richthofen's Flying Circus" | Jagdgeschwader 1 |
| American ace who achieved fame as a race car driver before becoming a pilot | Eddie Rickenbacker |
| Rickenbacker's nickname | “Fast Eddie” |
| WWI figure who helped Rickenbacker get admitted to flight school | Colonel Billy Mitchell |
| This aviator finished as the top American ace of WWI with 26 kills | Rickenbacker |
| Race event Rickenbacker competed in four times and later bought | Indianapolis 500 |
| Airline Rickenbacker bought in 1938 | Eastern Airlines |
| Famous aircraft designer who created the Voyager, Global Flyer, and SpaceShipOne | Burt Rutan |
| Pilots of the Voyager plane | Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager |
| Pilot aboard the Global Flyer who made a solo, non-stop circumnavigation without refueling in 2005 | Steve Fossett |
| Rutan's SpaceShipOne won this prize in 2004 for the first privately funded space flights | $10 million Ansari X Prize |
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