1. When and where did the first hot-air balloon flight take place?
2. Who designed the first hot-air balloon that carried humans?
3. Who was Sir George Cayley and what were his contributions to aeronautics?
4. Who was Otto Lilienthal and what were his contributions to aeronautics?
5. Who was Octave Chanute and what were his contributions to aeronautics?
6. Who was Samuel P. Langley and what were his contributions to aeronautics?
7. What are Aerodromes/the Aerodrome?
8. What offer led to the creation of the full-size Aerodrome, and what change in aircraft engines occurred from this development process?
9. Why did the Wrights choose Kitty Hawk and Kill Devil Hills in North Carolina for their initial flights?
10. When was the first successful, powered, manned flight, how long was the flight, and who was the pilot?
11. What is considered the first practical airplane and why?
12. Explain what events, in 1908, propelled Orville and Wilbur Wright into the public eye.
13. Who was the first to build an aircraft with ailerons, and in what year was that aircraft completed?
14. What was special about the Wrights' propeller as opposed to the standard ones used in Europe? How did the Wrights' propeller affect performance?
15. What was the key difference in stability between the Wright brothers' aircraft and the similar designs the Europeans and Curtiss adopted?
16. What was Orville Wright's final major accomplishment for aviation?
17. Where is the Wright Flyer I today and what was the conflict with Langley's Aerodrome?
18. What is the "Aeronautical Triangle", who is included, and how are they connected?
19. Who was Glenn Curtiss?
20. What was the largest obstacle to heavier-than-air flying in the late19th century?
21. Who created the first practical gas engine?
22. Why did the first two decades of aircraft favor multi-wing planes, and why did things later shift to monoplanes?
23. What was the first jet airplane and when did it first fly?
24. Why did the top speeds and highest altitude flights of aircraft tend to decline starting in the 1970s?