Take The “Wings Over Kansas” Aviation History Quiz #8!

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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 correct answer, you’ll learn once you’ve checked at the end of this quiz. However, if you’ve visited WingsOverKansas.com “100th Anniversary of Flight” page, you’ll have already learned the answers to these intriguing questions.

Now here’s “Wings Over Kansas” History Quiz, Part #8, The Eighties:

1. What Space Shuttle Program had its first flight on April 12, 1981?

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Columbia

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2. Who was the first American woman in space in 1983?

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Sally Ride

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3. What was the 1984 Martin Marietta-built unit that allowed astronauts to free float outside the space shuttle Challenger?

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Manned Maneuvering Unit

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4. When was the Hubble Telescope launched in orbit around the earth?

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April, 1990

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5. What was the first airliner designed solely by computer aided design technology (CAD)?

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Boeing 777

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6. What was the first operational aircraft designed to avoid radar detection?

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Stealth Fighter F-117A

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7. What was the large “flying wing” incorporating stealth technology to evade radar and capable of flying 6,000 miles without refueling with 40,000 pounds of bombs?

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B-2 Bomber

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8. What aircraft ushered in a new era of lightweight fighters for the Air Force in 1975 and is still in production and more than 3,000 are still active?

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F-16 Fighting Falcon

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9. What was the aircraft built by Bell Helicopter Textron and Boeing, first flown in 1989? It combined the vertical lift capabilities of a helicopter with the speed and range capabilities of an airplane?

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V-22 Osprey Tiltrotor Transport

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10. What famous aircraft built by Lockheed, set the first of many records for speed in 1974?

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SR-71

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11. What was the all composite constructed aircraft that Burt Rutan flew around the world in 1986 without stopping or refueling?

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Voyager

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12. What technology was introduced in the eighties utilizing electronic signals to actuate mechanical movement in the plane, eliminating the need for heavy cables?

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Fly-by-wire

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13. What technology developed in 1985 provided intelligence and reconnaissance capability to field commanders with high quality video imagery for artillery or naval gunfire adjustment, and battle damage assessment?

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UAV’s-Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

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