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Challenge 10, December 2002

1. At the 1911 Central Carolina Fair, a special treat were the flights of North Carolina’s first professional pilot, who offered a $100 silver cup to any Tar Heel who would fly with him. Who was he?

a. Thornwell H. Andrews

b. Thomas Wolfe

c. Michael Jordan

c. Bayard Wootten

2. In what year is James Henry Gatling rumored to have tested North Carolina’s first heavier-than-air flying machine in Hertford County?

a. 1873

b. 1900

c. 1910

d. 1861

3. Dr. Daniel Asbury of Mecklenburg County built a steam-driven airplane in 1880-81, but his skill in aviation design was not proven before he died. In which industry were Asbury’s inventions more successful?

a. Tobacco

b. Hogging

c. Logging

d. Mountain climbing

4. In Look Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe describes his Asheville contemporary Kiffin Rockwell as a “sissy.” But, Rockwell was one of the first Americans to fight in WWI and is credited as a founder of this American air squadron in 1916:

a. French American Flight Command

b. Lafayette Escadrille

c. Tar Heel Attack Squadron

d. Parisian Air Patrol

5. In 1928, Wilmington’s municipal airfield was named for this former UNC football coach and winner of the Croixe de Guerre.

a. Arthur Bluethenthal

b. Mack Brown

c. James McConnell

d. T.C. Trenchard

6. This “Flying Parson” hailed from Sampson County, and was an ordained Baptist minister who attended Wake Forest University before he joined the military and became “the premiere flyer of the Army Air Service,” according to the New York Times.

a. Lt. Belvin Womble Maynard

b. Major John Sally

c. General Carl Spatz

d. Pvt James Iredell

7. Many of North Carolina’s military pilots went on to have successful careers in other fields. Which of these prominent North Carolina figures was not a military pilot?

a. UNC Comptroller William D. Carmichael

b. Claude L. Currie, Dean of NC State Senate

c. James A. Taylor, Dean of UNC Medical School

d. Congressman Harold D. Cooley

8. From 1910 to 1912, North Carolinians produced only two successful airplanes. Which one of them was contracted by the U.S. Post Office to make the first cross-country airmail flight on May 23, 1912. (there are four choices, two are NC planes, two are not, but only one is the contracted plane)

a. William Christmas’ Red Bird III

b. James Spainhour’s American monoplane

c. Jack Knight’s DH4M

d. Charles Lenoir’s Piedmont