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Describe the layout of the earliest airports

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Large rectangular field

1
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Name the 1st air traffic controller in the u.s

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Archie League (1929)

2
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State the location of the 1st u.s facility that was used to keep track of en-route aircraft.

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Newark, New Jersey (1935)

3
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Sate the early ATC equipment that was used by personnel to keep track of aircraft.

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Maps
Blackboards
Shrimp boats

4
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State the location of the 1st control tower in Canada

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St. Hubert airport, north of Montreal

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Name the first early radar transponders used in ww2

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IFF (identification friend or foe)

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Name the pilot and year of first international airmail flight from vancouver to Seattle

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Bill Boeing and Eddie Hubbard - 1919

7
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Name and date of first powered flight

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Orville wright -dec 17, 1903

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Name and date of first flight through Canadian Rockies

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Earnest Hoy - 1919 (in a JN-4)

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Name and date of first powered flight in Canada

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J.A.D mccurdy - 1909 (flying silver dart at baddeck Nova Scotia)

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First nonstop newyork to Paris

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Charles Lindbergh - 1927

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Conducted 2000 glider flights near Berlin

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Otto lillienthal 1891-1896

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State year trans Canada airlines came into being

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1937

13
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Describe event that lead to the establishment of the federal aviation administration

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Grand Canyon collision 1956 (united airlines dc7 and TWA super constellation)

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Explain the lighted airways system

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51 ft beacon tower with powerful rotation light
concrete arrow on floor points to direction of flight
Emergency landing patch beside some towers

15
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Name aircraft used in the initial delivery of airmail in u.s

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DH4, Curtiss Jenny JN4

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Reason for development of jeppesen chart

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To make flying safer, record all danger and note elevation of obstructions

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State the type of airway navigation aid that replaced the lighted airway system

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Low frequency radio