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AS 100 Chp 5 Lsn 1 The Propeller Era in Comm Flt
A. Define, Describe, or Identify:
1. Stockholder
2. Antitrust
3. Pressurized cabin
4. All-cargo airline
5. Air traffic control
6. Airways
7. General aviation
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B. True/False:
Put a T in the blank if the sentence is true and an F if it is false.
__ __1. Howard Hughes got into aviation as a poor orphan desperate to rise above his
humble circumstances.
__ __2. Because of new antitrust law, TWA was unable to build Howard Hughes the
faster plane he wanted.
__ __3. World War II was so long and exhausting that once it was over, few people
wanted to fly again.
__ __4. The H-4 Hercules was eventually the world’s largest flying boat.
__ __5. Airlines knew that if they could make passengers more comfortable at higher
altitudes, more would want to fly.
__ __6. Donald Douglas dropped out of the Naval Academy and then MIT before
starting his aircraft business in southern California.
__ __7. The Hindenburg disaster marked the end of efforts to use airships for
commercial travel.
__ __8. In 1940, the government introduced a new system of air traffic control requiring
each airline to provide its own controllers at every airport it served.
__ __9. One early form of coast-to-coast service combined air and rail: Ford Trimotors
by day and Pullman sleepers at night.
__ __10. Not until Fred Smith launched Federal Express in 1973 did an all-freight carrier
come into its own.
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C. Matching:
Match the definition in Column A with the aircraft in Column B. You may use each
aircraft only once.
Column A
Column B
__ __ 1. Designed for passengers, it flew faster
than the fighter planes of its day.
__ __ 2. This plane was made of wood during
World War II but flew only once, for 60
seconds.
__ __ 3. Its pressurized cabin made this aircraft a
breakthrough; it could fly at up to 20,000
feet and reach speeds of 200 miles per hour.
__ __ 4. Other planes flew higher and faster; this
one was easier to come by after the war and
soon almost every airline was flying it.
__ __ 5. Because of its great range, this plane was
known as the “Seven Seas.”
__ __ 6. This is one of the aircraft available for
shorter routes by 1947.
__ __ 7. This was the first aircraft to lift a useful
load exceeding its own weight.
__ __ 8. Many people call this the world’s first
modern passenger plane.
__ __ 9. This was one of the world’s most popular
general aviation planes.
__ __ 10. This plane was as close as the public
could get to a “fighter”; 500 were on order
before it made its first flight.
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b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
h.
i.
j.
DC-7C
Cloudster
Boeing 307B Stratoliner
Boeing 247
DC-4
Lockheed-049 Constellation
Beech Bonanza
Convair 240
The Spruce Goose
Piper Cub
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E. Fill in the Blanks:
1. In 1939, Howard Hughes became the _________ ___________ of TWA. This gave
him a voice in _______ the airline.
2. When the Constellation was ready for a test flight in 1944, _____ _ was at the
controls.
3. After World War II, interest in aviation was keen. People who wanted to start airlines
could buy ________-_______ planes at bargain prices.
4. _____, which helped the British keep an eye out for German bombers during the war,
came into use in civil aviation, making air travel _____.
5. In the early days before pressurized cabins were introduced in aircraft, when planes
went much over 10,000 feet, people on board got _____. Some even _______.
6. Like early passenger planes, the first all-cargo planes were developed for the
________.
7. Donald Douglas Sr. finished a four-year course at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in two years, and was offered a job there immediately. But his goal was
to make it on his own in the ________ ________.
8. The German maker Zeppelin was the most successful builder of ________. The most
famous of these was the __________.
9. The 1930s were a time of enormous ______ in passenger air travel. Still, longdistance travel was mostly by ____.
10. During the early 1930s the US government tried to get ________ ______ to buy
planes. It even came up with a plan for a “____ _____ _____,” to sell for $700.
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