NAME: __________________________
Date Due: ________________________
Chapter 3 Lesson 2: Flight Goes Mainstream
Vocabulary: Define or Describe
Milestone –
Apprentice
Autogiro
Transcontinental
Blind flight
Spatial disorientation
Mainstream
Flight simulator
Matching:
Match the definition in Column A with the name in Column B. You may use each name only once.
Column A
_____ This aviator named his plane the Spirit of
St. Louis, in honor of the men who had
supported him.
Column B
A. Charles A. Lindbergh
B. David Myers
_____ As an aviator, she was best known for her
1931 flight to China over the North Pole.
C. Amelia Earhart
_____ On an early Atlantic crossing, this pilot
landed in Wales instead of Ireland, and
with only a gallon of fuel left.
D. James Harold Doolittle
_____ She was a pioneer of transatlantic flight, but
on her first crossing, she was a passenger,
not a pilot.
F. William C. Ocker
____ _ He was Amelia Earhart’s last copilot.
H. Katherine Sui Fun Cheung
_____ He made the first successful blind flight
I.
Frederick Noonan
_____ This sergeant’s work helped solve the
problem of spatial disorientation.
J.
Carl Spaatz
_____ This Army flight surgeon helped solve
the problem of spatial disorientation.
_____ She soloed after only 12 ½ hours of
instruction.
_____ He and his crew set an endurance record in
the Question Mark and demonstrated the
practicality of in-flight refueling. (p. 103)
E. Wilmer Stultz
G. Anne Morrow Lindberg
Multiple Choice:
Circle the letter that provides the best answer.
1. Why did Charles Lindbergh want Ryan Aircraft to build him his plane so quickly?
a.
b.
c.
d.
He knew other pilots were after the same prize he was
He wasn’t sure the company would be in business much longer.
He had a new kind of radio he wanted to be able to test out in his plane.
He was on leave from the Army and had only a limited amount of time.
2. What did Lindbergh do after his transatlantic solo flight?
a.
b.
c.
d.
He made a 3,200-mile tour of 13 Latin American countries.
He worked to help the new airlines determine the best air routes.
In a little more than three months, he flew 22,350 miles across the United States.
All of the above.
3. Why did Wilmer Stultz ask Amelia Earhart to fly with him to Europe in 1928?
a.
b.
c.
d.
He valued her skills as a navigator.
He thought she would bring him good luck.
He was hoping she’d write an article about the adventure.
He wanted to win a prize being offered by Amy Phipps Guest.
4. In the early days, pilots got confused when visibility was poor. This was because:
a.
b.
c.
d.
Early aircraft didn’t have very good lighting.
Most places on the ground weren’t as well lighted as they are today.
They had lost sight of the horizon, which they’d used to orient themselves.
Early aircraft vibrated so much they made on-board compasses hard to read.
5. What was William Ocker’s ambition as a pilot?
a.
b.
c.
d.
To be not the best pilot, but the oldest pilot.
To have as much safety equipment as possible.
To be the first pilot to master each new type of aircraft.
To help Colonel Doolittle push for an independent air force.
6. When the Post Office started airmail service in 1918, what planes did it have?
a.
b.
c.
d.
A few planes borrowed from the Army.
A special fleet manufactured by Glenn Curtiss.
Individual pilots were expected to bring their own aircraft.
Some German aircraft captured in Europe, where World War I was still raging.
Fill in the Blanks:
1. During the 1920s, Charles A. Lindbergh toured as a wing walker and a parachutist in a
barnstorming act, and then a __________________.
2. When he reached the western edge of the British Isles on his transatlantic flight, he called down to
the fishermen, “Which way is __________________?”
3. Today, _________________ jets fly from New York to Paris in less than one-third the time
Lindbergh took.
4. __________________ was a way for Anne Morrow Lindbergh to establish her own identity and
step out of her husband’s shadow.
5. Among the challenges Amelia Earhart coped with on her solo flight across the Atlantic were icedup wings, instrument problems, and a broken _________________ in the exhaust system.
6. Other pilots had flown around the world and made their circuits in the northern _______________
where there is more land.
7. After Doolittle’s pioneering work in blind flight, manufacturers starting equipping planes with
instruments and two-way ______________________.
8. Many early pilots took pride in their ability to “fly by the seat of their _________________” but
William Ocker and David Myers realized that pilots of the future would have to rely more heavily
on instruments.
9. Airmail not only sped up mail delivery—it contributed a great deal to the development of the
_______________________.