Aviation History - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
He sketched an 'aerial screw' in 1489, an early predecessor to the helicopter	Leonardo da Vinci	74%
Nickname of WW1 fighter ace, Manfred von Richthofen	Red Baron	69%
European aircraft manufacturer and major competitor to Boeing	Airbus	66%
Common name for an aircraft's Flight Data Recorder or Cockpit Voice Recorder	Black Box	64%
Name of Boeing's successful 787 twin engine airliner	Dreamliner	58%
First name of the Wright brother who made the first successful powered flight in 1903	Orville	58%
Pilot of the aircraft in the "Miracle on the Hudson" crash landing in 2009	Chesley Sullenberger	57%
Nickname of the Boeing Superfortress which dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima	Enola Gay	56%
Large German passenger-carrying rigid airship which crashed spectacularly in 1937	Hindenburg	56%
Year in which the Boeing 747 'Jumbo Jet' made its maiden flight	1969	54%
Spy plane in which Gary Powers was shot down over the USSR in 1960	Lockheed U2	51%
Year in which Charles Lindbergh made his non-stop solo transatlantic flight	1927	50%
National airline of Spain	Iberia	49%
USA's largest international air carrier from 1927 until its collapse in 1991	Panam	49%
Brazilian aerospace company that produces a large range of different aircraft types	Embraer	45%
Nickname for the giant wooden aircraft designed by Howard Hughes	Spruce Goose	45%
Name of either of Tokyo's major international airports	Narita or Haneda	44%
... and the name of the aircraft used for that transatlantic flight	Spirit of St. Louis	44%
Soviet supersonic competitor to Concorde	Tupulev Tu-144	44%
Company responsible for the design of the legendary Spitfire aircraft	Supermarine	43%
UK's iconic delta wing strategic bomber which saw its RAF introduction in 1956	Avro Vulcan	41%
Aircraft in which Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947	Bell X-1	41%
First purpose-built jet airliner which first flew in 1949	de Havilland Comet	40%
Russian-American aviation pioneer, particularly in the field of helicopters	Igor Sikorsky	39%
Last name of the French brothers who made the first manned flight in a hot air balloon	Montgolfier	35%
First person to cross the English Channel in a heavier than air aircraft	Louis Bleriot	21%
German pioneer who was the first person to make successful glider flights in the 1890's	Otto Lilienthal	16%
Holder of the first patent for a turbojet engine on which most modern jets are based	Frank Whittle	15%
Name of the aircraft which made the first non-stop, around the world, flight in 1986	Voyager	12%
Early aviation pioneer and the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia in 1930	Amy Johnson	8%

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