FCAS Final Exam Questions & Answers
2024/2025
Who is credited for the principle of Buoyancy? - ANSWERSArchimedes
Balloons, what year, who? - ANSWERS- 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? - ANSWERS1804, first model airplane flown
1809, built full scale airplane
Penaud, what were his contributions? - ANSWERS- 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? - ANSWERS- 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) - ANSWERS- civil engineer
- built and tested gliders based on Otto Lilienthal's designs
- wrote "progress in flying machine"
Langley, steam powered model, Smithsonian curator - ANSWERSmay 6, 1896, flew a steam powered
model 3,300 ft
,Wright brothers, first names, profession, home city, where did they make their 1st flights? - ANSWERS-
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? - ANSWERSDecember 17, 1903
Length and distance of Wright Brothers first flight? - ANSWERS12 seconds, 120 feet
other contributions from the Wright Brothers? - ANSWERS- built wind tunnel in 1901
- 1900 began working with gliders
Glenn Curtiss, what were his contributions? - ANSWERS- 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? - ANSWERS- 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? - ANSWERS- Calbraith Perry Rogers
- September 17-November 5, 1911
Sikorsky, what were his contributions? - ANSWERS- September 14, 1939: first helicopter flight in the U.S.
-- first practical single rotor helicopter
NACA, what was this and when was it founded? - ANSWERS- National Advisory Committee for
Aeronautics
, - established by President Woodrow Wilson in 1915
WW1, dates, aviation advancements? - ANSWERS- July 28, 1914-November 11, 1918
- Advancements:
-- airplane development
-- airplanes:
--- stronger
--- faster
--- more powerful engines
-- fighters are faster and armed better
-- multi-engine bombers are able to deliver ordinance from hundreds of miles away
Golden Age of Aviation, when was this - ANSWERS1918-1939, between World War 1 and World War 2
Air-Mail, when, what cities? - ANSWERS- May 15, 1918
-- New York, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C.
- September 8-11, 1920
-- New York to San Francisco
Trans-atlantic flights, what year (NC-4, Lindbergh) - ANSWERS- NC-4
-- May 8-31, 1919
- Lindbergh
-- May 20, 1927
Air Commerce Act of 1926, what was this, what did it accomplish? - ANSWERS- development of civil
aviation
- navaids
- licensed pilots
- airworthiness certificates
