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1.
Family
Located in Colorado Springs, the U.S.
Air Force Academy admitted its first cadets in
1940
1946
1954
1964
2. In 1937, the German dirigible ,
landing at Lakehurst, N.J., mysteriously ex-
ploded and burned.
Bismarck Kaiser Wilhelm
Graf Zeppelin Hindenburg
3. Launched from the carrier , air-
craft led by Jimmy Doolittle were the first
U.S. planes to bomb Japan in World War II.
Lexington Enterprise
Saratoga Hornet
4. In 1961
manned orbital flight.
Scott Carpenter
John H. Glenn Jr.
flew the world's first
Yuri Gagarin
Gherman Titov
5. The first U.S. spacecraft to orbit the earth
were part of Project
Gemini Mercury
Scorpio Saturn
6. In 1986 Dick Rutan and Jeanna Yeager flew
the lightweight aircraft around
the world without refueling.
Voyager Aviona
Aeronav Solaria
7. Charles Lindbergh's historic first solo flight
from New York to Paris took
hours.
22 44
33 55
8. World War II kamikaze planes which
crashed into U.S. ships were named after a
Japanese word meaning
"heavenly "dedicated
bound" warrior"
"divine wind" "risen sun"
9. The B-17 bomber, workhorse of the Second
World War, was nicknamed the
"Invincible "Flying
Fortress" Fortress"
"Superfortress" "Stratofortress"
10. Humorist Will Rogers died in the
crash of a plane piloted by aviation pioneer
Wiley Post
Amelia Earhart
"Hap" Arnold
Billy Mitchell
Aviation
The story of flight is filled
with names of famous
persons, machines, and
events. See how much
you know about air and
space history. Answers
and scoring are below.
By Ernest Dodar
11. Astronauts Crippen and Young pi-
loted the first U.S. space shuttle, the
Atlantis Columbia
Challenger Discovery
was the first female
U.S. astronaut in space.
Sally Ride Judith Resnik
Christa McAuliffe Anna Fisher
13. Dr. Robert Goddard is remembered for his
work in developing
parachutes radar
rockets piston engines
-HuehnemortH-
14. Early in World War II in China, U.S.
Army flier Claire Chennault led "The Flying
" against the Japanese.
Sharks Gorillas
Cobras Tigers
15. Pilots ride with or fly against the jet
stream, an air current that moves generally
from
south to north north to south
west to east east to west
16. Russian-born Igor Sikorsky invented the
first successful , flown in 1939.
jet plane helicopter
hang glider hovercraft
ANSWERS: (1) 1954 (2) Hindenburg (3) Hornet
(4) Yuri Gagarin (5) Mercury (6) Voyager (7) 33
(8) "divine wind" (9) "Flying Fortress" (10)
Wiley Post (11) Columbia (12) Sally Ride (13)
rockets (14) Tigers (15) west to east (16) heli-
copter.
SCORING: 14 to 16 correct—You're an ace! 11
to 13 correct—Move to tailgunner position.
Less than 10 correct—Time for an aviation
refresher course. ■
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Scouting September 1992
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