This is a fun quiz that covers the Top Aerospace Milestones, designed to test your aviation history knowledge.
If you’re like many aviation history buffs, aviation enthusiasts and aerospace professionals, you’ll enjoy testing your knowledge of major aviation achievements and accomplishments in this nine-part series of multiple questions. If you don’t know the answer, you’ll learn once you’ve checked for the correct information. Here’s a hint, if you’ve visited WingsOverKansas.com “100th Anniversary of Flight” page, you’ll learn the answers to the questions.
Now here’s “Wings Over Kansas” History Quiz, Part #1, 1903-1919:
- Who achieved powered, manned flight on December 17, 1903 and where did this occur?
- What early aircraft design pioneer won the Collier Trophy for designing the hydroplane and the flying boat?
- Who opened the door to naval aviation with carrier takeoffs and landings in 1910?
- Who built the first multi-engined aircraft in Russia in 1913?
- Who was the German aircraft designer that pioneered the use of all-metal aircraft structures for civil and military use in 1915?
- Who was the Dutch-American aircraft designer and manufacturer, with great influence on developments in airplane construction, particularly in the use of welded steel tubing in fuselage construction in the early 1900’s?
- Who developed gyroscopic controls in 1914, drift indicator in 1916, and other controls setting the stage for advances in aircraft instrumentation.
- What organization organized the first government-sponsored support of aviation research and development that was initiated in 1915?
- Who was the aviator who made the first transatlantic air crossing in 1919 in an American Navy Curtiss NC-4 flying boat?
- What aviators made the first nonstop air crossing of the Atlantic in 1919 in a Vickers Vimy bombers powered by two Rolls Royce engines?
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