Intro to aviation

Who were the montigolfer brothers and what did they do

Discovered that heating air inside of something makes it fly, first humans aloft

What did Henri J. Giffard do?

Mounted a lightweight steam engine under a cigar-shaped balloon and was the first human to make LTA flight

What was LTA aircraft first used for?

Studying troop movements behind enemy lines in 1794

What did Jean-Pierre Blanchard do

First free flight in the US in 1793

What did Jeffries and Blanchard set out to do

Make a Dirigible or a balloon with direction control

What were the first influences for heavier than air flight

The box kite and windmill

What was Sir George Cayley known for

Founder of aeronautics, published scientific principles for heavier than air flight

What was Otto Lilienthal known for

Pioneering glider flights making 2000 of them and breaking his back and dying after a stall

What was Clemet Ader known for

Taught himself engineering, constructed a gas balloon and very odd flying machines

What was Hiram S Maxim known for

Making the maxim machine gun, and also a huge biplane that took off and took the railroad tracks with it making him cut power and never fly again

What was Octave Chanute known for

Successful civil engineering background, experimented with moveable wings and weight shifting, also invented diagonal wire bracing on his gliders which the Wrights used on their design

Who was Samuel Langley

Well respected, held a great position at Smithsonian, tried to make the first HTA powered controlled sustained flight with gov. funding by taking off from his houseboat but failed

How did the wrights come up with wing warping

Studying birds

What did the wrights discover in 1901 with their glider

Adverse Yaw in turns, pitching up and stalling

What did the wrights do after concluding that everybody else’s research was unreliable

Conducted testing in their own wind tunnel

What improvements were brought to the wright’s glider in 1902

longer wings, a flatter camber, and made two fixed vertical fins to counter adverse yaw.

What was the weight and HP of the wright’s engine and who made it

200LBS, 12HP, Carlie Taylor

How did they accomplish making thrust

Made the prop blades airfoils

What was the wright’s takeoff date

Dec. 17th 1903

What did the wright’s want to do when they got home after the first flight

Get a patent, and improve their design

What did Huffman Prairie do

Was a banker who gave the wright’s his field to fly in

What made the wright’s give up on the patent and sell the company in 1915

Wilbur’s death in 1912, and the patent pool at the start of WW1 in 1914