COMPLETE SOLUTIONS 2025
, 6 Aerospace Concentrations - ANSWERAviation Management
Flight Dispatch
Professional Pilot
Maintenance Management
Technology
Unmanned Aircraft Systems
"Add On" - Air Traffic Control
Who is the aerospace department chair? - ANSWERDr. Beckman
What is AABI? - ANSWERAviation Accreditation Board International
What are the Aerospace labs at MTSU? - ANSWERATC Simulation Lab
Technology Lab
NASA Focus Lab
UAS Lab
Legend of Wan Hoo - ANSWERWanted to go to the moon - attached 47 rockets to his
wicker chair - never seen again
Leonardo Da Vinci - ANSWERHis ideas were discovered after his death. Flying
machine "ornithopter" - contributed ideas of center of gravity & center of pressure
Toricelli, Von Guericke, & Pascal - ANSWEREuropean scientists
- discovered atmosphere is a pressure
- pressure decreases with altitude
Laurenco de Gusmao - ANSWERinvented the hot air balloon early 1700's - just the
concept
Montgolfier Brothers - ANSWERHot air balloon
- sheep, duck , & rooster first passengers to fly
- 1783, first men to fly - 25 min. and 5 miles
First successful rigid dirigible - ANSWERFerdinand von Zeppelin: LZ-1
Sir George Cayley - ANSWER"Father of Aviation"
- 1st airplane pioneer in 19th century
- 4 forces of flight
Samuel Pierpont Langley - ANSWER"Langley Aerodome"
- $50,000 grant from Congress, launched from catapult in the Potomac River