1.
Lack of success may have more to do with __________ than intellectual ability.
A. 
Poorly developed study skills
B. 
C. 
D. 
2.
When was the Air Force (as we know it) established?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
3.
Who recorded the first successful and useful balloon reconnaissance mission for the Army?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
4.
Who demonstrated that a balloon could effectively direct artillery fire by telegraph?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
5.
What was the name of the 14,000 cubic foot silk balloon that some historians believe was a determining factor in the victory of the battle of San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War?
6.
What was the name of the man, who along with his wife, created a 14,000 cubic foot silk balloon for use in the Spanish-American War?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
7.
Who was the Army's first enlisted pilot?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
8.
Who was the first enlisted person to die in an accident in a military aircraft?
A. 
B. 
Private First Class Vernon Burge
C. 
Lieutenant Benjamin D. Foulois
D. 
9.
Select the 3 fundamentals that Edward Ward and Joseph E. Bennett were intitally trained in upon assignment to the Signal Corps Aeronautical Division in August of 1907.
A. 
Fundamentals of balloon fabric
B. 
Manufacture of buoyant gases
C. 
Sending telegraphs from the air
D. 
Inflation and control of balloons
E. 
10.
When was the 1st Aero Squadron (Provisional) activated?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
11.
What authorized the Signal Corps to to establish an aviation section consisting of ___ officers and ___ enlisted men?
A. 
U.S. House Resolution 5304, 60 and 260
B. 
Air Activation Act, 260 and 60
C. 
U.S. House Resolution 53, 60 and 260
D. 
President Executive Oder 4305, 250 and 40
12.
What bill created the military rating of aviation mechanician, and called for a 50% pay raise for enlisted men "instructed in the art of flying'?
A. 
B. 
President Executive Oder 4305
C. 
D. 
U.S. House Resolution 5304
13.
How many Aero Squadrons were fully equipped when the US declared war on Germany on 6 April 1917?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
14.
The two largest (1917) special schools/instituitons that trained mechanics were in St Paul, MN and Kelly Field, TX.
15.
Who is referred to as the "Father of Blind Flight"?
A. 
Sergeant William C. Ocker
B. 
Private First Class Vernon Burge
C. 
16.
Who was the only African- American, referred to as the "Black Swallow of Death" to serve as a pilot during WWI?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
Sergeant William C. Ocker
17.
What Act(s) effectively reserved the cockpit for the commissioned?
A. 
Public Law 99, Flight Officer Act (Public Law 658)
B. 
Flight Officer Act (Public Law 658), Congress Act of 1914
C. 
President Executive Oder 4305, Public Law 99
18.
What made the air service an official comabat arm of the Army?
A. 
Army Reorganization Act of 1920
B. 
C. 
U.S. House Resolution 5304
19.
The mid 1920's say air activites limited to what three things?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
E. 
20.
The Air Corps Act of 2 July 1926 changed the name of the Air Service to the Air Corps.
21.
Who was the first Security Forces Airman to die during Operation Iraqi Freedom?
A. 
Airman First Class Elizabeth Jacobson
B. 
Senior Airman Zachary J. Rhyner
C. 
Technical Sergeant John A. Chapman
22.
What percent of pilots flying in support of Operation Noble Eagle belonged to the ANG?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
23.
When did US, British, and French aircraft began a sustained campaign against terrorist targets in Afghanistan?
A. 
Provide humanitarian airlift to the oppressed
7 October 2001
B. 
C. 
24.
What were the US's two main purposes when arriving in Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom?
A. 
Provide humanitarian airlift
B. 
C. 
Conduct miliatary action to root out terrorism
D. 
25.
When did the Taliban abandon Kandahar, the last major town under it's control?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D.