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tech_aviationfirsts.ID = "tech_aviationfirsts";
tech_aviationfirsts.sPubDate = "11/17/2003 8:44:13 PM GMT";
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tech_aviationfirsts.appDeck = new Array("Click on your selected answers, then hit the \"Submit Your Response\" button at the bottom of the page. After you've submitted your choices, scroll back down to see your score and explanations of the answers.<br><br>","Thanks for taking our quiz. You scored <SCORE>.<br><br>");
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tech_aviationfirsts[1] = new Array();
tech_aviationfirsts[1][0] = new Array("How long was the Wright Brothers' first successful flight on Dec. 17, 1903?");
tech_aviationfirsts[1].answer = "The first flight went 120 feet in 12 seconds. The fourth flight of the day went 852 feet in 59 seconds. After that outing, a gust of wind destroyed the plane, and it never flew again.";
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tech_aviationfirsts[1][2] = new Array("120 feet",'',1);
tech_aviationfirsts[1][3] = new Array("320 feet",'',0);
tech_aviationfirsts[1][4] = new Array("852 feet",'',0);

tech_aviationfirsts[2] = new Array();
tech_aviationfirsts[2][0] = new Array("Who was the first woman to fly as a passenger in a heavier-than-air craft?");
tech_aviationfirsts[2].answer = "Therese Peltier, a talented sculptor, made a flight of 656 feet with Leon Delagrange in Turin, Italy, on July 8, 1908. Two months later, Edith Berg became the first American woman airplane passenger. Katharine Wright first flew with her brother Wilbur in 1909, and in 1928, Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic.";
tech_aviationfirsts[2][1] = new Array("Katharine Wright",'',0);
tech_aviationfirsts[2][2] = new Array("Edith Berg",'',0);
tech_aviationfirsts[2][3] = new Array("Therese Peltier",'',1);
tech_aviationfirsts[2][4] = new Array("Amelia Earhart",'',0);

tech_aviationfirsts[3] = new Array();
tech_aviationfirsts[3][0] = new Array("Who was the first sitting president to fly in an airplane?");
tech_aviationfirsts[3].answer = "Theodore Roosevelt is often cited as the first flying president, but he actually took the ride in 1910, after leaving office. Franklin Roosevelt was the first to fly while serving in the White House, on Jan. 14, 1943. It was a trip from Miami to Morocco for a meeting with Winston Churchill.";
tech_aviationfirsts[3][1] = new Array("Theodore Roosevelt",'',0);
tech_aviationfirsts[3][2] = new Array("William Howard Taft",'',0);
tech_aviationfirsts[3][3] = new Array("Calvin Coolidge",'',0);
tech_aviationfirsts[3][4] = new Array("Franklin Roosevelt",'',1);

tech_aviationfirsts[4] = new Array();
tech_aviationfirsts[4][0] = new Array("Who was the first passenger killed in an airplane crash?");
tech_aviationfirsts[4].answer = "Army Lt. Thomas Selfridge was the first passenger to die in an airplane crash, on Sept. 17, 1908. Orville Wright, who was piloting the plane during a demonstration for the military, was seriously injured in the crash. He recovered, however, and lived until 1948. His brother Wilbur died of typhoid fever in 1912. France's Adolphe Pegoud is considered the first World War I ace to die in aerial combat, in August 1915.";
tech_aviationfirsts[4][1] = new Array("Orville Wright",'',0);
tech_aviationfirsts[4][2] = new Array("Wilbur Wright",'',0);
tech_aviationfirsts[4][3] = new Array("Thomas Selfridge",'',1);
tech_aviationfirsts[4][4] = new Array("Adolphe Pegoud",'',0);

tech_aviationfirsts[5] = new Array();
tech_aviationfirsts[5][0] = new Array("When did the first helicopter flight occur?");
tech_aviationfirsts[5].answer = "French bicycle-maker Paul Cornu was the first person to build a helicopter that achieved free flight while carrying a passenger. His twin-rotor craft flew for about 20 seconds on Nov. 13, 1907, rising about one foot off the ground. The helicopter had no effective means of control and was abandoned after a few flights.";
tech_aviationfirsts[5][1] = new Array("1907",'',1);
tech_aviationfirsts[5][2] = new Array("1915",'',0);
tech_aviationfirsts[5][3] = new Array("1926",'',0);
tech_aviationfirsts[5][4] = new Array("1937",'',0);

tech_aviationfirsts[6] = new Array();
tech_aviationfirsts[6][0] = new Array("Which country was the first to make use of an airplane in wartime?");
tech_aviationfirsts[6].answer = "In October 1911, the Italians used an airplane for wartime reconnaissance in Libya during the Tripolitanian War, and conducted the first aerial bombing raid that November. The first air-to-air combat came in 1913, during the Mexican Revolution. World War I, which began in 1914, was the first war in which aerial combat played a high-profile role.";
tech_aviationfirsts[6][1] = new Array("Britain",'',0);
tech_aviationfirsts[6][2] = new Array("France",'',0);
tech_aviationfirsts[6][3] = new Array("Germany",'',0);
tech_aviationfirsts[6][4] = new Array("Italy",'',1);

tech_aviationfirsts[7] = new Array();
tech_aviationfirsts[7][0] = new Array("When was the first trans-Atlantic flight?");
tech_aviationfirsts[7].answer = "The U.S. Navy's NC-4 flying boat made the first trans-Atlantic crossing May 8-27, 1919. British pilots John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown made the first nonstop crossing in a Vickers Vimy bomber on June 14-15, 1919. Charles Lindbergh's first nonstop solo crossing came on May 20-21, 1927. ";
tech_aviationfirsts[7][1] = new Array("1910",'',0);
tech_aviationfirsts[7][2] = new Array("1919",'',1);
tech_aviationfirsts[7][3] = new Array("1923",'',0);
tech_aviationfirsts[7][4] = new Array("1927",'',0);

tech_aviationfirsts[8] = new Array();
tech_aviationfirsts[8][0] = new Array("When did regular daily international passenger air service begin?");
tech_aviationfirsts[8].answer = "French aviator Louis Bleriot made the first international flight in 1909, across the English Channel from England to France. The first scheduled daily passenger air service was the St. Petersburg-Tampa Air Boat Line, set up in 1914 in Florida. But it wasn't until 1919 that French and English operators offered daily scheduled service on the Paris-Brussels and London-Paris routes.";
tech_aviationfirsts[8][1] = new Array("1909",'',0);
tech_aviationfirsts[8][2] = new Array("1914",'',0);
tech_aviationfirsts[8][3] = new Array("1919",'',1);
tech_aviationfirsts[8][4] = new Array("1924",'',0);

tech_aviationfirsts[9] = new Array();
tech_aviationfirsts[9][0] = new Array("Which was the first commercial jet?");
tech_aviationfirsts[9].answer = "The deHavilland Comet 1 first flew in 1949 and inaugurated the world's first commercial jet service for BOAC on May 2, 1952. The Comet 1 suffered a series of tragic accidents, however, and was withdrawn from service two years later. Aeroflot began the world's first regularly scheduled and sustained passenger jet service in 1955 using Tu-104s. U.S. airlines brought the 707 and DC-8 into service in 1958 and 1959, respectively.";
tech_aviationfirsts[9][1] = new Array("American DC-8",'',0);
tech_aviationfirsts[9][2] = new Array("American Boeing 707",'',0);
tech_aviationfirsts[9][3] = new Array("British Comet 1",'',1);
tech_aviationfirsts[9][4] = new Array("Soviet Tu-104",'',0);

tech_aviationfirsts[10] = new Array();
tech_aviationfirsts[10][0] = new Array("When was the first in-flight movie shown?");
tech_aviationfirsts[10].answer = "The history books point to 1925: Some merely say it was a silent short film on a German Luft Hansa plane, while others report it was \"The Lost World,\" shown on a British Imperial Airways flight. The first feature film exhibited on a regularly scheduled commercial flight was \"By Love Possessed,\" starring Lana Turner and Efrem Zimbalist Jr., which passengers saw on TWA flights in 1961.";
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tech_aviationfirsts[10][2] = new Array("1925",'',1);
tech_aviationfirsts[10][3] = new Array("1932",'',0);
tech_aviationfirsts[10][4] = new Array("1961",'',0);


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