FCAS Final Exam Study Guide
Who is credited for the principle of Buoyancy? - ✔✔Archimedes
Balloons, what year, who? - ✔✔- 1783, Montgolfier Brothers (Joseph and Etienne)
-- released first, manned, free ascent hot air
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FCAS Final Exam Study Guide
Who is credited for the principle of Buoyancy? - ✔✔Archimedes
Balloons, what year, who? - ✔✔- 1783, Montgolfier Brothers (Joseph and Etienne)
-- released first, manned, free ascent hot air balloon
- 1783, J.A.C. Charles
-- first manned flight of a hydrogen filled balloon
Cayley, what were his contributions? - ✔✔1804, first model airplane flown
1809, built full scale airplane
Penaud, what were his contributions? - ✔✔- first airplane with inherent lateral and longitudinal
stability
- 1871, 20" rubber band powered model; with dihedral, tail surface, and pusher propeller
Lilienthal, what book did he write, what were his other contributions? - ✔✔- wrote "Bird Flight
as a Basis of Aviation"
- built and flew a series of gliders beginning in 1891
Chanute, Pratt Truss, assisted others (Wright Brothers) - ✔✔- civil engineer
- built and tested gliders based on Otto Lilienthal's designs
- wrote "progress in flying machine"
Langley, steam powered model, Smithsonian curator - ✔✔may 6, 1896, flew a steam powered
model 3,300 ft
Wright brothers, first names, profession, home city, where did they make their 1st flights? - ✔✔-
Wilbur Wright
- Orville Wright
- Orville started a printing press while in high school
- they owned a bike shop in Dayton, Ohio
- Made their first flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
Date of Wright Brothers first flight? - ✔✔December 17, 1903
Length and distance of Wright Brothers first flight? - ✔✔12 seconds, 120 feet
other contributions from the Wright Brothers? - ✔✔- built wind tunnel in 1901
- 1900 began working with gliders
Glenn Curtiss, what were his contributions? - ✔✔- July 25, 1909, first to fly across the English
channel
- first to build a monoplane and fly across the English Channel
Louis Bleriot, what were his contributions? - ✔✔- July 25, 1909, first to fly across the English
channel
- first to build a monoplane and fly across the English channel
1st trans-americas flight, when, who? - ✔✔- Calbraith Perry Rogers
- September 17-November 5, 1911
Sikorsky, what were his contributions? - ✔✔- September 14, 1939: first helicopter flight in the
U.S.
-- first practical single rotor helicopter
NACA, what was this and when was it founded? - ✔✔
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