Final - vocab Flashcards
Happ Arnold
Incharge of Army corps
Jimmy Doolittle
Doolittle raid on Japan: bombers bombed Japan, planes didn’t get back to station, fell over China rice patties. Instrument flying
Charles Lindbergh in WWII
Helps with tactics, airlifts, flies missions as civilian. Berlin airlift.
Robert Goddard
Rocket man. 1940s - rockets have significance, denied. Rocket reseach
Werner von Braun
Headed Germany’s rockets. Came to US after war. V-2.
Yamamoto
Incharge of the battle at Midway. Fails out of pure luck
Chuck Yeager
WWII leading Ace for US (13). Broke speed of sound on a Bell x-1 SOS 760 mph
Tex Johnston
Test pilot for Bell and Boeing Aircraft company. Flew the first US Jet. Did a barrel-roll in a Boeing 707 plane
Sir “Bomber” Harris
Arthor Harris. Incharge of bomb command in GB. Strategic bombing, bomb cities, not factories.
Gen. Ira Eaker
In charge of American 8th airforce. bring Americans to Britain to help bombing. Around the clock bombing
Herman Goering
WWI Ace, incharge of Luftwaffe, part of the Red Baron group.
Cold War
No action, between USSR and US, proxy fighting. Nuclear stand off.
Nimitz/ MacArthur
In charge of command for the planned assaults on Japan in 1945. Both accepted Japan’s defeat on the USS Missouri
De Havilland Comet
First production commercial jetliner, UK 1949. Failed because of metal fatigue after 1 year
Sputnik
Oct. 4, 1957 Russia. First thing sent into space (like a rocket), beats US in space race
Atomic Bombs
Aug 6, 9, 1945 atomic bombs dropped. Equivilent of 20000 lbs of TNT. FIrst little boy, then fat man
Manhattan Project
Lisa Meinter, Einstein, Leslie Grovers, Robert Oppenheimer. $2 Billion. 125,000 employed. Top Secret
Robert Oppenheimer
Father of the atomic bomb
Tuskegee Airmen
Black pilots. Bombers and fighters. Paint their tails red to signify they were there for protection. Integration of the army
Private Pilot Requirements
Most freedom with licence, 40 hrs, flight physical every 2-3 years
Sikorsky
Company formed by Igor Sikorsky in 1925. Parent company to United. Airplanes and Helicoptors
Jackie Cochran & Nancy Love
WASP founders. School for female pilots in Texas. Transport military planes.
Pearl Harbor
Surprise strike on Dec 7, 1941. Intended to prevent the US from interfering with Japanese military actions. 353 Jap fighters, 4 sunk carriers, all 8 damaged.
Fat Man
Fell on Nagasaki (2nd bomb, Aug 9). bad accuracy, 10,000 lbs, kills 74,000 people
Little Boy
Hiroshima. Destroys 60% of the city. 9000 lbs. 150,000 people died. Target not chosen until that day
Jet v. Propeller
Faster top speed, doesn’t get up faster than prop
Battle of Britain
Only fought with planes, German attack on Britain. Defied numbers and odds, Britain won.
Project Mercury
First human spaceflight for US, 1959-63. Did not beat Russia, but put a human into orbit around earth
Project Gemini
Civilian space agency, 10 manned flights between 1965-66. First space walk, docking