Q-1. From 1909 to 1914, aviation developed from an object of

curiosity into a:
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An industry that needs to grow with government investment
A modern craze that gripped the popular imagination
A profession for many pilots
 
Correct answer
A modern craze that gripped the popular imagination
 
Q-2. The beginning of this new phase in the conquest of the air was
symbolized by two events in the summer of 1909:
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Blériot’s flight across the English Channel and the Reims aviation meeting
 
Wilbur Wright’s flights in Europe in 1908, and Northcliffe prize of £500
Lincoln Beachey’s Curtiss Model D headless pusher flying machine and
several prizes
 
Q-3. LOUIS BLÉRIOT (1872–1936) was an engineer and skilled
businessman who won fame, glory, and the Daily Mail’s £1,000 prize
for being the first to:
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Cross the English Channel by aeroplane
 
Be exposed to howling winds, freezing cold and damp in open cockpit
Crossing the Alps mountains in Italy
 
Q-4. The leading role in the design of the _______________ was
played by Raymond Saulnier, a young engineer employed by Blériot in
1908. The cross-Channel flight made the Blériot monoplane a
fashionable aircraft for rich sportsmen to fly and a cultural icon.
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Blériot XI
 
Hubert Latham’s Antoinette IV
 
Q-5. The aircraft that made historic crossing of the English Channel on
25 July 1909, established the main monoplane design features for
generations to come, and paved the way for the company’s
considerable commercial success was:
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The blériot XI monoplane
 
Hubert Latham’s Antoinette IV
Curtiss Model D Headless Pusher
 
Q-6. One of the main disadvantages of all monoplanes, including the
Blériot model, was the weakness of the___________, which needed
strong wire bracing to withstand the loads placed upon it.
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Heavy Tail
Single wing
 
Rudders being operated through a liver at the pilot’s feet
 
Q-7. The ______________ was even more important in establishing
the credibility of heavier-than-air flight as a practical new technology.
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The Reims meeting or Grande Semaine d’Aviation de la Champagne
 
First English Channel Crossing by an Aviator
 
Q-8. IN APRIL 1910, English pilot Claude Grahame-White and
Frenchman Louis Paulhan, both flying Farman biplanes, competed for
the £10,000 prize put up by Lord Northcliffe for the first flight:
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From London to Manchester – a distance of 296km (185 miles).
 
To cross the English Channel by aeroplane
 
Q-9. Louis Paulhan’s Farman biplane and Grahame-White during the
London–Manchester aeroplane race kept their bearings by following
the:
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Light Beacons established on ground
Railway line
 
Ground Navigational System
 
Q-10. IN SEPTEMBER 1911, Calbraith Perry Rodgers set out to win
the $50,000 prize, put up by the flamboyant publisher William
Randolph Hearst, for:
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The first coast-to-coast flight across the United States in under 30 days
 
To win a race from London to Manchester
To cross the English Channel by aeroplane

The Wrights instinctively felt that a flying machine was more like
a________ , and would need to be flown with constant adjustments of
balance
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Zepline
Bicycle
Monoplane

Correct answer
Bicycle
 
As the 19th century drew to a close, the attaching of an engine to
some form of glider had suddenly become more feasible through the
development of the internal combustion engine, which had the
potential to generate more power per weight than any steam engine.
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True
 
False
 
Early experimenters in powered flight were unfortunate in that their
only feasible power plant was a steam engine.
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True
 
False
 
In the 1890s French electrical engineer Clément Ader built two
______________ with wings modelled on a bat. Although his first, the
Éole (below) managed to hop for 50m (165ft) the Avion III, failed to get
off the ground.
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Single piston engine
steam-powered flying machines
 
jet-engine machine
 
The first claim to have actually cracked the problem of powered flight
came from French electrical engineer__________ . After testing his
bat-winged, steam-powered Éole in 1890, he claimed: “I have
resolved the problem after much work, fatigue, and money”.
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Clément Ader
 
Mozhaiskii
Count von Zeppelin
 
Cayley addressed himself to these problems of ____________
through careful observation of bird flight, systematic experimentation,
and mathematical calculations.
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Sustain and maneuver
lift and drag
 
takeoff and land
 
The Wright Flyer III was the world’s first practical powered aeroplane
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True
 
False
 
The brothers Joseph Michel and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier
launched their hot air balloon in:
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April 1783
 
1860
1660
1903
 
The Germans entered the airship field when Count von Zeppelin flew
his first:
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Monoplane
Biplane
airship LZ 1 in 1900
 
 
The ability to fly is truly one of the greatest achievement of:
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20th Century
World War 1
19th Century
Daedalus and Icarus
Correct answer
20th Century

The German engineer Otto Lilienthal was the first man: *

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an inventor, and a pioneer of flight before the Wright brothers.
Made kites for human flight
Applied his knowledge for aircraft military applications
to launch himself into the air, fly, and land safely
 
 
Discovery of the kites, by Chinese used as: *
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Human Flight
Military Application
Message for a rescue mission
 
Science and Meteorology
All of the above
None of the above
Correct answer
All of the above
 
The ‘Records Attempts’ were made: *
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During the early years of aviation history
Before World War II
 
After World War II
In recent times after 1958
 
In 1783, the first passengers in the colorful balloon were: *
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Two brothers Joseph Michel and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier
A sheep, rooster and duck
 
An eagle
George Cayley
 
The aeolipile is the first known device to transform: *
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steam into rotary motion
 
jet fuel for propelling
water energy for power generation
None of the Above
 
Over 50 years George Cayley made improvements to the gliders: *
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Changed the shape of the wings
Designed a tail
Tried a biplane design
Recognized that there would be a need for power if the flight was to be in the
air for a long time.
 
All of the above
none of the above
Correct answer
All of the above
 
The brothers, Joseph Michel and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier, were
inventors of: *
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Aeolipile
Hot air balloon
 
Ornithopter
Helicopter
 
Early myths about flight and probably many early attempts involved
fashioning wings out of: *
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large wings resembling paddles attached to both his hands and feet,
 
monoplane to fly across Atlantic
birds’ feathers
none of the above
Correct answer
birds’ feathers
 
In 1178, in Constantinople, a Muslim demonstrated to the Christian
Byzantine Emperor his powers of flight: *
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By jumping from Kill Hill Mountain
By jumping off a high building in a copious white robe stiffened with willow
sticks.
 
and was able to fly 29 meters
and was able to fly across Atlantic
 
The illusion that a person could fly like a bird or a bat cost some brave
and foolish men : *
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A few helicopters crashed
their lives or limbs
Daedalus and Icarus
 
None of the above
Correct answer
their lives or limbs

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