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Challenge 11, January 2003

1. Postmaster General Hitchcock in 1911 dubbed this first official carrier of US mail by air as Air Mail Pilot No. 1.

a. Earl L. Ovington

b. Paul Revere

c. James McCurdy

d. Samuel Corning

2. Lt. Thomas DeWitt Milling flew a Wright Model B gunner on June 2, 1912. What was the distinction of his flight that day?

a. First American military flight training mission

b. First American military aircraft armed with a machine gun

c. First military pilot to eject from a plane

d. First pilot to fly from the Naval Academy to the Military Academy

3. Where did the first aerial combat take place?

a. Off the coast of Japan

b. Over the border of Spain and France

c. Over Mexico

d. Over the Atlantic Ocean

4. Air shows were popular attractions as early as 1910, although they did not generally feature many stunts. Not until 1913 did a pilot sustain inverted flight. What was that pilot’s name?

a. Adolphe Pegoud

b. Roland Garros

c. Maurice Prevost

d. F. K. McClean

5. The first British, French and German pilots to die in World War I service were killed in 1914. When was the first American pilot killed during World War I?

a. June 1916

b. May 1918

c. January 1917

d. December 1915

6. The greatest Allied ace of World War I was Capitaine Rene Paul Fonck with 75 confirmed victories, but with 80 victories this German pilot was the war’s greatest ace.

a. Rittmeister Manfred, Frieherr von Richthofen

b. Oberleutenant Ernst Udet

c. Leutnant Werner Vaus

d. Leutnant Fritz Rumey

7. Lt. William D. Coney’s flight from San Diego, CA, to Jacksonville, FL in 1921 was the first solo American coast-to-coast flight. How long did it take?

a. 12 hours

b. 22 hours

c. 36 hours

d. 48 hours

8. In the first manned space flight that lasted more than a day, Soviet cosmonaut made how many orbits of the Earth?

a. 1

b. 17

c. 3

d. 52