Hangar Quiz
Answers are listed below

Print this fun and informative quiz prior to your visit to the museum and pass copies out to your students. They can carry it with them as they tour the exhibits, finding the answers for themselves.

1. Name the first airplane to fly at Chanute Field.
2. How many wings are on a biplane?
3. What "steers" an airplane?
4. How does a hot air balloon fly?
5. Name 5 "funny" special shapes of hot air balloons.
6. What kind of glider is the Octave Chanute glider? How did Octave Chanute help the Wright Brothers?
7. What kind of bomber carried the Hound Dog missile under its wing?
8. How heavy is the blast door on the underground missile silo?
9. Where do USAF missile crew members live and work while on duty?
10. What kind of plane is the World War II-era B-25? Is it a jet?
11. What is the only "16 wheeler" aircraft in the museum?
12. What is a B-52? How wide is its wingspan?
13. How many propellers does the F-111 have?
14. How do big trucks and jeeps and other cargo get into the C-130?
15. Which airplane has pontoons? What can it do that other planes cannot?
16. How many Thunderbird airplanes are at the museum?
17. How many fire trucks are in the museum? Which is the oldest?
18. What is a flight simulator used for?
19. How many stars and stripes are on the flag of the United States of America?
20. What is the only aircraft in the museum with six engines?
21. What is Charles Lindbergh famous for? Name his plane.
22. What is a "veteran"?
23. Why do we celebrate the 4th of July?
24. What does "POW-MIA" stand for?
25. Why should you study history?

Hangar Quiz Answer Sheet
Here are the correct answers:

1. Curtiss "Jenny"
2. Two
3. The rudder on the vertical stabilizer (tail)
4. Propane tanks fuel burners that blow hot air into the envelope. This makes the air inside warmer than that outside the envelope, causing the balloon and gondola to rise.
5. Tennis shoe, bus, etc. (See photos on the walls of the BAGI exhibit for others.)
6. Unpowered hang glider with one occupant. The Wright Brothers used Chanute's basic design for their first motorized airplane.
7. Boeing B-52 Stratofortress
8. Over 100 tons of solid concrete and steel.
9. Underground (See the diorama beside the silo.)
10. A bomber. No, it has propellers.
11. Convair B-58 Hustler
12. A bomber. It's wingspan is 185 feet.
13. None, it's a jet.
14. The huge back doors open and form a ramp for vehicles to drive up into the plane.
15. Grumman HU-16 Albatross It can land on water.
16. Six
17. Six. The 1943 Chevrolet in the Rantoul Historical Society hallway.
18. Learning to fly an airplane (or practicing flying).
19. Fifty stars (one for each state) and thirteen stripes (one for each of the original 13 American colonies).
20. Boeing XB-47 Stratojet
21. He was the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean from New York to Paris. Spirit of St. Louis
22. Any man or woman who served in the military.
23. It is the birthday of the United States of America.
24. Prisoner of War-Missing in Action
25. "If we do not learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it."