WorksheetsHistory of aviation
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 15mins
(a) designs flying machines and (b) in 1485-1500.
1783
Jean François Pilâtre de Rozier and Marquis d'Arlandes make the first free aerial voyage in a Montgolfier (a)
1852
Henri Giffard's steam-powered (a) makes first flight.
1895
Otto Lilienthal flies biplane (a) .
1903
Orville and Wilbur Wright make first powered, sustained, and controlled (a) in a heavier-than-air flying (b) .
1926
Robert H. Goddard makes first free flight of a liquid-fueled (a) .
1927
Charles A. Lindbergh completes first solo, nonstop trans- (a) flight.
1930
Frank Whittle, British inventor, invents the (a) engine.
1947
Charles E. Yeager pilots Bell X-1—the first aircraft to exceed the speed of (a) in level flight.
1961
Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, is the first man in (a) .
