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What are the latin origins of the word aviation?
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'avis' - latin for bird
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What is the story of Daedalus and Icarus?
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Made wings out of feathers and wax to escape, son Icarus crashed in ocean from trying to fly too high
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In Greek Mythology there was a mythical flying horse. What was itsname?
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Pegasus
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Lawrence Hargrave, an Australian, is credited as being one of theaviation pioneers. What were his achievements in what calendartimeframe?
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1989 - world first radial engine1893 - box kite design1894 - 5 metre lift off box kite design1906 - engines too large to sustain flight
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What arethe fourforces thatneedto be managed if an aircraftisto flysafely.
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Thrust (Power) & DragLift & Weight
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What month and year did the Wright Brothers conduct the first controlled,powered and sustained heavier than air flight?
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17th December 1903
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Oneof the events that demonstrated thepotentialof the aeroplane wasthe first crossing of the English Channel by Louise Bleriot, a Frenchadventurer, in his self designed Bleriot XI monoplane on 25 July 1909.This was the first time that an aircraft had done what?
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Cross the english channel
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What was the first large passenger aircraft carrying 16 people and twotonnesof freight and when was its first flight?
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S-22 Iilya Muromets - June & July 1913, St Peterberg to Kiev and return.
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Why was the signing oftheConvention relating to the Regulation ofAerial Navigation(‘The Paris Convention, 1919’) on 13 October 1919important? What was the pre-occupation of States that led to thishappening?
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While aviation had proven itspotential, the post-World War IGovernments held majorconcerns about this new form oftransportcompromisingnational sovereignty.
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What was the name of the Australians and in what year that:
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Captain Ross Smith and Lt. Keith Smith - 1919 first flight from england to ausCharles Kingford Smith & Charles Ulm - 1928 across pacific ocean
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In what year did Qantas offer services (in conjunction with partnerairlines) from Australia to England?
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13th April 1935 in conjunction with BOAC or Indian Airlines.
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The largest technology leap for aviation was the invention of the jetengine. Inmodern times, who was the inventor of the jet engine and inwhat year did he have a working model?
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Sir Frank Whittle - working model in April of 1937
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Although the technology was tested as early as 1931, the firstcommercial aircraft in wide use to have cabin pressurization was whataircraft type and in what year did it enter service?
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Lockheed Constellation - entered service in 1945
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What aircraft type is considered to be the beginning of the ‘jet age’ and inwhat year did it commence commercial services?
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Boeing 707 - 1958
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What was the firstwide-body aircraftbuilt and in what year did itcommence commercial service?
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The Boeing 747 - 1970
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