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1. "Here's the World War I flying ace posing beside his Sopwith Camel." So began the flying adventures of Snoopy, that risk-loving beagle in the "Peanuts" cartoon strip. His goal was to shoot down the "Red Baron" (the nickname of Germany's flying ace, Manfred von Richthofen) but who was the original "l'as"? Adolphe Pegoud Albert Ball Max Immelman Billy Bishop

2. We know that Yuri Gagarin was the first man to go into space, but do you remember the name of his spacecraft? Zond Buran Vostok Soyuz

3. The first balloon flight was in 1783, and by 1794 balloons were being used for military purposes. Who was the first 'war pilot' of a hot air balloon? Henry Cavendish Jean-Marie Coutelle Bartolomeu de Gusmao Abraham Hopman

4. It took a hundred years to go from balloons to powered flight but less than 60 years to go from air-breathing engines to rocket engines. Who made the first rocket plane flight? Jimmy Doolittle Erich Warsitz Robert Goddard Fritz von Opel

5. "If they fire a missile at you, fly higher and faster". Which spy-plane's pilots might have been given those instructions? OH-6 Cayuse B-2 Excalibur SR-71 Blackbird F-117 Nighthawk

6. Anyone willing to fly an airplane off an aircraft carrier deserves respect. In what year was the first flight from a ship? 1922 1910 1934 1939

7. If one engine in an airplane is good, imagine how much better it would be with two - or four! Which country can claim to be the birthplace of multi-engined flight? France Germany United States Russia

8. For many years, through the 1960s (at least in America), having a picture of your house taken from the air was something to boast about. When and where were the first aerial pictures taken? 1902, Paris, France 1904, Wroclaw, Poland 1888, Birmingham, England 1860, Boston, Massachusetts

9. In 1873, Jules Verne wrote "Around the World in Eighty Days", a story about a wager to achieve that aim, the original plan being to do so by a combination of rail and steamship. In 1929, a flying machine flew around the world in 20 days. What was its name? Spirit of Chatahoochie Graf Zeppelin Lone Eagle Norge

10. You could cross the Atlantic Ocean in half the time as a regular jet aircraft if you could do it supersonically! Tell me, tovarich, what was the name of the first supersonic passenger airplane? Aerion Concorde Tupolev Aurora