Aviation History: Chapter 6 Pt. 1

Vocabulary flashcards covering major events, expeditions, aviators, aircraft, and competitions during the Golden Age of Aviation, based on Chapter 6 Sections A and B.

Charles Lindbergh

The American aviator known as the 'Golden Boy of the Golden Age' who made the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight from New York to Paris in May 1927.

Nebraska Aircraft Company

The Lincoln-based aviation company that refurbished war-surplus aircraft where Charles Lindbergh received his first flight instruction in 1922.

Brooks Field

The military installation where Charles Lindbergh began his Army Air Service cadet training in April 1924, graduating first in his class of 18 cadets in March 1925.

Robertson Aircraft Corporation

The St. Louis aviation enterprise awarded Commercial Airmail Route 2 (CAM 2) between St. Louis and Chicago, employing Charles Lindbergh as an airmail pilot in April 1925.

Raymond Orteig

The French-born New York City businessman who sponsored the Orteig Prize, offering $\text{\$25,000}$ for the first nonstop flight between New York City and Paris.

Spirit of St. Louis

The custom single-engine Ryan monoplane built with an extra fuel tank and flown by Charles Lindbergh across the Atlantic, named after the St. Louis investors who funded it.

Roosevelt Field

The Long Island airfield from which Charles Lindbergh took off on May 20, 1927, to embark on his $33\text{\,hours and } 30\text{\,minutes}$ transatlantic flight to Paris.

Distinguished Flying Cross

The U.S. military decoration awarded to Charles Lindbergh by President Calvin Coolidge following his historic 1927 nonstop flight from New York to Paris.

Goodwill Tour of the 48 States

A 1927 promotional flying tour across all 48 U.S. states in which Charles Lindbergh covered $22,000\text{\,miles}$ and logged $260\text{\,hours and } 45\text{\,minutes}$ to demonstrate the safety and reliability of aviation.

James D. Dole

The organizer of the 1927 Dole Pacific Air Race who offered a $\text{\$35,000}$ purse for the first nonstop flight from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii.

Dole's Pacific Air Race

An August 16, 1927 race from Oakland to Honolulu that claimed ten lives across crashes, disappearances, and search efforts, with only two of nine starting aircraft finishing.

Woolaroc

The modified Travel Air 500 monoplane flown by pilot Art Goebel and navigator William V. Davis that captured first place in the 1927 Dole Pacific Air Race.

Aloha

The aircraft that finished in second place in the 1927 Dole Pacific Air Race, touching down in Honolulu three hours behind the winning Woolaroc.

Bird of Paradise

The U.S. Army Air Corps Atlantic-Fokker C-2 flown by Lieutenants Maitland and Hegenberger on June 28, 1927, marking the first nonstop flight from California to Hawaii.

Amelia Earhart

The aviator who became the first female pilot to complete a solo, nonstop transatlantic crossing in 1932.

Beryl Markham

The aviator and author of West with the Night who became the first woman to complete a solo east-to-west flight across the North Atlantic in 1936.

Douglas 'Wrong-Way' Corrigan

An aviator who helped build the Spirit of St. Louis and completed an unauthorized 1938 transatlantic flight to Ireland after claiming navigational errors diverted him from California.

Howard Hughes

The aviator and industrialist who completed a record-setting round-the-world flight in 1938 with a four-man crew in $3\text{\,days, } 19\text{\,hours, and } 17\text{\,minutes}$.

Richard E. Byrd

The American explorer who piloted a Fokker Trimotor to the North Pole in 1926 with Floyd Bennett and flew a Ford Trimotor over the South Pole in 1929.

Valeri Chkalov

The Soviet pilot who commanded the first nonstop transpolar flight from Moscow to Washington in 1937, completing the trip in $63\text{\,hours and } 17\text{\,minutes}$.

Italo Balbo

The Italian Minister of Air sent by Benito Mussolini in 1933 who led a mass formation of 25 seaplanes from Rome to the Chicago World's Fair.

MacRobertson Air Race

A 1934 speed air race covering $12,300\text{\,miles}$ from England to Australia, won by C.W.A. Scott and T. Campbell Black in the de Havilland 88 Comet named Grosvenor House.

Explorer II

A high-altitude research balloon piloted by Major William Kepner that established a record by reaching an altitude of $72,395\text{\,feet}$.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The French airmail pilot and author who crashed into the Egyptian desert in 1935 during a Paris-to-Saigon flight raid after failing to set his altimeter correctly.

Autogiro

A rotary-wing aircraft pioneered by Juan de La Cierva that utilizes an unpowered overhead rotor for lift and a standard propeller for forward thrust.