Early American Air Force pilots

The transcript recounts the early days of aviation, focusing on the experiences of Hap Arnold and T. DeWitt Milley as they learned to fly with the Wright Brothers in 1911. It highlights the rapid advancements in aviation technology over 42 years and the efforts to develop military aviation capabilities, including photography, machine guns, and bombing techniques.

Who were the young lieutenants that joined General Folloy at the one-man air force?

• Hap Arnold and T. DeWitt Milley

• Orville and Wilbur Wright

• Eddie Rickenbacker and Billy Mitchell

• Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart

In which month and year were General Arnold and the narrator ordered to learn to fly with the Wright brothers?

• June 1914

• May 1913

• April 1912

• March 1911

What was the duration of the instruction period for learning to fly?

• A month

• Three weeks

• Two weeks

• About a week

What were some of the methods developed after the training period?

• Taking photographs, using the machine gun, dropping bombs

• Building aircraft, designing engines, creating flight suits

• Navigating by stars, using parachutes, flying at night

• Training pilots, constructing runways, developing radar

What significant development in the military is mentioned in the last section?

• The creation of the first aircraft carrier

• The first transatlantic flight

• The invention of the jet engine

• The beginning of the air arm of the United States Navy