First Years Semester Exam Review

Aerospace Science Inventors made lightweight devices of cloth or wood imitating birds or bat wings Jumped from tall buildings or structures hoping to glide or flap their way to earth, resulting in serious injury or death First man-made devices to fly were Chinese kites around 1000BC The first real scientist in aviation history was Leonardo da Vinci People thought bird feather and wings were the key because they observed birds, bats, and insects

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Aerospace Science Principle of buoyancy: if the air or gas inside a balloon is lighter than the air around it, the balloon will float Whether the aircraft is lighter or heavier than air, all aviators face the same three problems: How to get up into the air How to stay up in the air How to control direction and getting safely back to earth German inventor Count von Zeppelin built and few the 1st successful rigid dirigible and world’s first commercial airships… Zeppelins

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Aerospace Science The Wright Brothers built 3 gliders they flew like a kite to test control and lift before putting a man aboard 17 December 1903, Orville Wright made the first controlled, sustained, heavier-than-air, powered aircraft human flight The Wright Brothers controlled the aircraft with: The forward elevator The use of wing warping A single, movable rear rudder

Aerospace Science The earliest aircraft engines were heavy and inefficient because they used water as a coolant Rotary engines use circulating air for cooling rather than water… more efficient and lighter In 1911, Harriet Quimby was the first American woman to earn her pilot’s license In 1921, Bessie Coleman became the first black woman to get a pilot’s license in France because no flight school in the USA would accept her

Aerospace Science In 1912, Katherine Stinson was the fourth American woman to earn pilot’s license, and youngest at age 16 When WWI began, Katherine and Marjorie Stinson opened a school to train Americans and Canadians as pilots for the war and became one of the most successful women in aviation