Pioneers of aircraft

Question 1

George Cayley

Answer 1

Proposed the separation of functions within an aircraft

Question 2

Orville Wright

Answer 2

mustache, first controllable engine powered flight

Question 3

Willbur Wright

Answer 3

first controllable engine powered flight

Question 4

Samuel Langley

Answer 4

Competitior of the Wright brother, tried his first flight a few weeks before them but failed

Question 5

Anthony Fokker

Answer 5

build many aircraft and a company bearing his name

Question 6

Albert Plesman

Answer 6

First administrator of KLM, one of the oldest arlines

Question 7

Otto Lilienthal

Answer 7

2000 flights, 12 gliders, built own hill, died in 1896 crash

Question 8

First HtA flight

Answer 8

1903, Wright Brothers, The Flyer