Aerospace – how familiar are you with it?

Does a greenhouse effect exist on Mars? How fast does the world’s fastest electric airplane fly? What will soon open in space? Aerospace is an enormously fascinating subject – go ahead and test your knowledge.
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The dream of human flight is nearly as old as humankind itself. As far back as in the 24th century BC the shepherd Etana wanted to fetch the “plant of birth” from the sky for his childless wife but crashed together with his eagle. In the Middle Ages the universal genius Leonardo da Vinci proposed concrete ideas of how to make humans airborne. In 1903 Orville Wright achieved the first motorized flight. And what about today? Today, the discussion is mainly focused on green technologies for sustainable flying. How familiar are you with current developments in aviation? Go ahead and test your knowledge.