Q: Do you know who was the first person to cross the English Channel?
Students will brainstorm to recall from Online Research Assignment who Louis Bleriot was and what he accomplished.
ASSESSMENT AS LEARNING:
The Teacher Prepared slideshow contains 20 slides of information for completing the Timeline Wall Display. You must learn five (5) things which are Milestones in Aviation History.
ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING:
Have your five (5) answers ready for Wednesday morning quiz. Using one sentence, answer two questions about the moment in aviation history. Tell the teacher what each pioneer in aviation did and when it was done. Each student must fill in the Timeline Wall Display with at least five (5) Milestones in Aviation History.
Timeline Template:
ACTIVATE:
Students will recall Louis Bleriot's famous English Channel Crossing in 1909.
Students will watch a teacher prepared "History of Human Flight" slideshow.
ACQUIRE:
Students will record "Milestones in Aviation History" while viewing the slideshow.
APPLY:
Students will fill out a recipe card for each Milestone in History they are going to profile. The recipe cards with the recorded facts from history will be placed in chronological order on the Timeline Wall Display.
Students must have five (5) events in aviation history to post on the Timeline Wall Display.
The Story of Icarus 
First Lighter Than Air Ascent.
Glider Testing 1890s.
Controlled Flight 1903
English Channel Crossing 1909
The Vickers Vimy was a British heavy bomber aircraft of the First World War and post-First World War era. It achieved success as both a military and civil aircraft, setting several notable records in long-distance flights in the interwar period, the most celebrated of which was the first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by Alcock and Brown in June 1919.
Vickers Vimy Aircraft and Concorde 2005.
September 16 - 18, 2005 - The Vimy at the Goodwood Revival Meeting in Goodwood, England.The Vickers Vimy replica that flew across the Atlantic has become almost as famous as its original ancestors, whose feats also include the first London to Australia flight in 1919 and the first London to Cape Town flight in 1920.
Polar Navigation May 26, 1926.
Transatlantic Crossing May 20-21, 1927.
Age of the Airships1930s.
Hindenburg Disaster May 6, 1937.
1,000-BOMBER RAID
On 31 May 1942 the RAF mounted its first "1,000-bomber raid" on Germany, a modest fraction reaching the primary target, the city of Cologne. Not a word was reported on the development of electronic aids, such as Gee, Oboe and H²S, which over the next 18 months would transform Bomber Command's ability to reach its targets. In contrast to the tight security over Europe, the mighty Battles of the Coral Sea in May 1942, and Midway a month later, were filmed and reported in detail.
Battle of the Coral Sea, May 1942. American Naval Air power comes to bear. WWII saw the maturation of Carrier Warfare with the aircraft becoming the main weapon of war on the high seas. Heavily armoured and highly maneuverable, fighter aircraft breached the 400mph mark.
First Supersonic Flight
Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager (born February 13, 1923) is a retired major general in the United States Air Force and noted test pilot. He was the first pilot to travel faster than sound (1947).
First Man in Space
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968), Hero of the Soviet Union, was a Soviet cosmonaut who on 12 April 1961 became the first human to journey into outer space.
Commercial Aviation really Takes Off!
World War II, like World War I, brought new life to the airline industry. Many airlines in the Allied countries were flush from lease contracts to the military, and foresaw a future explosive demand for civil air transport, for both passengers and cargo. They were eager to invest in the newly emerging flagships of air travel such as the Boeing Stratocruiser, Lockheed Constellation, and Douglas DC-6. Most of these new aircraft were based on American bombers such as the B-29, which had spearheaded research into new technologies such as pressurization. Most offered increased efficiency from both added speed and greater payload.
In the 1950s, the De Havilland Comet, Boeing 707, Douglas DC-8, and Sud Aviation Caravelle became the first flagships of the Jet Age in the West, while the Soviet Union bloc had Tupolev Tu-104 and Tupolev Tu-124 in the fleets of state-owned carriers.
Supersonic Civilian Transport (Concorde)
Stealth and Supercruise
