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Voyager Wrights Doolittle & Extra Info
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A 100
The flight of the Voyager was considered so significant to
aviation history that it is now on permanent display at the
US Air Force Museum.
True or False
False
A 100
The Voyager aircraft was a tool that was used hundreds of times after its successful around the world flight for
scientific experiments
True or False
A 200
False
A 200
Of all the dangers and problems faced by the crew of the Voyager during their
‘round the world flight, weather was their biggest
concern.
True or False
A 300
True
A 300
The flight of the Voyager began and ended in
California.
What was the name of the airfield?
A 400
Edwards Air Force Base
A 400
Dick Rutan made a career of flying for what branch of the
armed services?
A 500
Air Force
A 500
The Wright Brothers studied many wing designs. Which one did they find produced
the most lift?
B 100
Curved wing
B 100
What were the two kinds of bird flight which the Wright
Brothers observed?
B 200
Fast wing flapping
Rigid wing soaring
B 200
What is the exact date and location of the Wright
Brothers first successful powered flight?
B 300
Dec. 17, 1903
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
B 300
The Wright Brothers first powered airplane was given a
special name.
What was it?
B 400
Kitty Hawk Flyer
B 400
How many years did the Wright Brothers experiment
at Kill Devil Hill?
B 500
4 years
B 500
C 100
Jimmy Doolittle became interested in flying at an early age. He was so excited about the possibility of flying that
he built something from plans he found in a magazine.
What did he build?
A glider
C 100
C 200
During World War I Jimmy Doolittle flew for the Army Air Corps but was never a
flight instructor.
True or False
False
C 200
True or False: As a youngster Jimmy Doolittle began his aviation career by building and testing his own glider.
The glider flew successfully.
C 300
False
C 300
DAILY DOUBLE
C 400
DAILY DOUBLE
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Jimmy Doolittle was the master of the “calculated risk.” One of the riskiest
things which he did was to set a new speed record while
flying a dangerous airplane. What was the name of that
airplane?
C 400
GeeBee
C 400
Jimmy Doolittle made many advances during the early
days of aviation. One of the most significant of these advances was known as
“blind flying.” How did he manage to take off and land without looking outside the
airplane?
C 500
With instuments
C 500
Magnetic compasses have three things in common. Two of those common items are a lubber line and a pivot point.
What is the third item?
D 100
Compass card
D 100
A compass points to the _________
north pole.
D 200
magnetic
D 200
Whole degrees of longitude and latitude are divided into
segments called minutes.
How many minutes are in each whole degree?
D 300
60
D 300
Latitude lines are drawn parallel to what imaginary line on the earth’s surface?
D 400
Equator
D 400
The oldest known use of the magnetic compass dates back to the 12th century when they were used by sailors at sea.
True or false
D 500
True
D 500
The author Harry Combs in the first Wright Flight lesson called the Wright Brothers
what?
E 100
Doers with Dreams
E 100
Aircraft ground safety is important. When going to and
from parked aircraft:
E 200
Do not run on the aircraft ramp!
E 200
Give the exact date and place of takeoff for the Voyager
aircraft and the total lengthof its epic around-the-world
flight.
E 300
December 14, 1986
Edwards Air Force Base
9 days, 3 minutes, 44 seconds
E 300
There are four forces of flight that act on an aircraft in
motion.
What are they?
E 400
Lift, weight, drag, and thrust
E 400
Name the designer and pilots of the Voyager.
E 500
Burt Rutan, designer
Dick Rutan & Jeana Yeager,
pilots
E 500
F 100
When approaching an aircraft prior to “pre-flight” and after
exiting the aircraft do not enter within:
The radius of the propeller
F 100
What process did Jimmy Doolittle say accounted for
his successes?
“He set goals and achieved them; and his failures he:
F 200
Pushed them aside, gained from them and would go on
to another goal.”
F 200
_____________
lines connect the earth’s north pole and the south pole.
F 300
longitude
F 300
When Jeana Yeager began her flying career she wanted to fly what type of aircraft?
F 400
helicopters
F 400
Dead Reckoning Navigation uses what components to
determine your future position?
F 500
Current position
Time/speed
Distance
Heading
F 500
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Jimmy Doolittle was the flyer who led the first raid on Tokyo
during World War II. What was his philosophy of life?
“I have a very simple philosophy of life. I believe we were put on this earth for a purpose and that
purpose is to make it…
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“within our capabilities, a better place in which to live.”
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