Worksheet – H-9/H-10/H-11

Cal Rodgers/Women in Aviation/Advances in Aviation

1.     Cal Rodgers is best known for flying ___________________________.

2.     He attempted this flight in 19__ in an airplane much like the one the ___________  Brothers first flew.

3.     Cal (did / did not) get the $50,000 prize money offered because he ______________________________________ .

4.     Cal had prepared airfields to land at during his flight? ________.

5.     Cal was sponsored by the ______  ______ company that produced a __________________ .

6.     Blanche Scott is best known because she was the first woman to _____ in a ________ - than air ____________.

7.     Bessica Raiche soloed without _________________________________.

8.     Harriet Quimby became the first woman to earn a __________________.

9.     Quimby also became the first woman to make a _________ flight and to pilot a plane across the ___________  ____________.

10. Matilde Moisant was known as a “maverick” and believed the number “____” luckey, she became the _____________ woman to qualify for a pilots licence.

11. Julia Clark was the ________ woman to earn a pilot’s license and the first American woman ____ _____ in an air accident.

12. Katherine Stinson was the first pilot and plane to participate in a _______________.

13. Her sister Marjorie became the first woman authorized to fly the experimental ____________ ______________.

14. Glenn Curtiss built the first American aircraft that was equipped with

_______________ that replaced wing warping for aircraft control.

15. Curtiss was also known as the “fastest man on earth” because he built an engine that would power his _________________ to a speed of 136 mph.

16. A Frenchman named _____________  ___________-____________ built the first airplane that had ______________ to replace the wing warping technique.

17. Esnault-Pelterie built the first airplane with a fully enclosed ____________________.

18. Louis Bleriot built and flew the world’s first powered ______________.

19. Louis Breguet built the first ________________ that could lift a person into the air in 1907.

20. The Seguin brothers are best known building an ____-cooled engine in a ___________ design known as the Gnome.

21. The Gnome had a unique design because the ________________ rotated around the crankshaft.

22. The Short brothers developed the first ________-engine aircraft.

23. Their new invention increased the aircraft’s ____________ and improved the reliability and ___________

24. Igor Sikorsky built and flew the first successful ___-engine aircraft, called, Le Grand.   He later became known for building helicopters.

25. In 1911, the United States had not kept up in aviation and was ___th in the world with only 26 pilots.