Aviation

Challenging Profiles of Aeronautical Commanders

Proceed through five complex questions about definitive facts surrounding celebrated historical pilots.

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1
In the 1930s, which pioneering pilot, who would later found a major airline, was also a key figure in establishing the first U.S. military airmail service and commanded the bomber that made the first flight over the North Pole?
Question 1
2
Which French aviator, a renowned test pilot and writer, disappeared with his navigator in 1936 during an attempt to break the speed record from New York to Paris, flying a specially modified aircraft named for a celestial phenomenon?
Question 2
3
Completing the first solo helicopter flight around the world in 1982, this American pilot's journey in a modified Hughes 500 was undertaken to promote a specific humanitarian cause. What was the named purpose of his global mission?
Question 3
4
Hanna Reitsch, a famed German test pilot, was the first woman to win certain aeronautical accolades and flew many advanced prototypes. Which of these specific aircraft types did she NOT fly during her testing career?
Question 4
5
Credited with the first aerial refueling using a flexible hose, a critical development for long-distance flight, which U.S. Army Air Corps pilot performed this feat in 1923 while flying a de Havilland DH-4B?
Question 5

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