Statistics for Aviation History

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
He sketched an 'aerial screw' in 1489, an early predecessor to the helicopter.	Leonardo da Vinci	76%
The nickname of WW1 fighter ace, Manfred von Richthofen.	Red Baron	73%
European aircraft manufacturer and major competitor to Boeing.	Airbus	67%
Common name for an aircraft's Flight Data Recorder or Cockpit Voice Recorder.	Black Box	66%
First name of the Wright brother who made the first successful powered flight in 1903.	Orville	63%
Large German passenger-carrying rigid airship which crashed spectacularly in 1937.	Hindenburg	59%
Pilot of the aircraft in the "Miracle on the Hudson" crash landing in 2009.	Chesley Sullenberger	58%
Nickname of the Boeing Superfortress which dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.	Enola Gay	58%
Year in which the Boeing 747 'Jumbo Jet' made its maiden flight.	1969	56%
Name of Boeing's successful 787 twin engine airliner.	Dreamliner	56%
Spy plane in which Gary Powers was shot down over the USSR in 1960.	Lockheed U2	54%
Year in which Charles Lindbergh made his non-stop solo transatlantic flight.	1927	52%
USA's largest international air carrier from 1927 until its collapse in 1991.	Panam	52%
National airline of Spain.	Iberia	50%
Nickname for the giant wooden aircraft designed by Howard Hughes.	Spruce Goose	48%
... and the name of the aircraft used for that transatlantic flight.	Spirit of St. Louis	47%
Company responsible for the design of the legendary Spitfire aircraft.	Supermarine	45%
Brazilian aerospace company that produces a large range of different aircraft types.	Embraer	44%
Name of either of Tokyo's major international airports.	Narita or Haneda	44%
First purpose-built jet airliner which first flew in 1949.	de Havilland Comet	43%
Soviet supersonic competitor to Concorde.	Tupulev Tu-144	43%
UK's iconic delta wing strategic bomber which saw its RAF introduction in 1956.	Avro Vulcan	42%
Aircraft in which Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947.	Bell X-1	41%
Russian-American aviation pioneer, particularly in the field of helicopters.	Igor Sikorsky	41%
Last name of the French brothers who made the first manned flight in a hot air balloon.	Montgolfier	38%
First person to cross the English Channel in a heavier than air aircraft.	Louis Bleriot	23%
German pioneer who was the first person to make successful glider flights in the 1890's.	Otto Lilienthal	18%
Holder of the first patent for a turbojet engine on which most modern jets are based.	Frank Whittle	17%
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	9%