First Steps in Aviation ✈️
From pioneers to legendary planes, get the early days of powered flight in order!
What this quiz asks
- 1In what year did the Wright brothers' Flyer actually take off?
- 2What was the Wright brothers' plane called during their first successful flight?
- 3Which cockpit instrument shows the plane's altitude?
- 4Which aviator crossed the Atlantic solo in 1932?
- 5Who flew across the English Channel in 1909?
- 6What was the world's first commercial jet airliner?
- 7What physical principle explains a wing's lift?
- 8What gas filled the Montgolfier brothers' balloon during the first crewed flight (1783)?
- 9Which American agency, a forerunner of NASA, defined famous wing airfoils?
- 10Who invented the autogyro, the forerunner of the modern helicopter?
