Aviation

1.    Which company started as the Pacific Aero Products Company in 1916, was given its present name in 1917, and is today the largest aviation company in the world?
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2.    What do the initials IATA stand for?
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3.    Which term is used for electronic instruments for use in aviation?
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4.    What acronym is used for the long-range radar surveillance and control centre for air defence developed originally in the USA?
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5.    Which engine powered both the Spitfire and the Hurricane fighters of World War II?
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6.    Who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?    
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7.    In 1997 there was a mid-air collision between a Saudi Boeing 747 and a Kazak airliner that claimed the lives of all 349 on board? Near which city did it occur?
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8.    Which aircraft company produces the DC series of aircraft?
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9.    What is Charles E 'Chuck' Yeager's claim to fame in aviation?
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10.    In which country did Charles Lindbergh land after the first solo transatlantic flight in 1927?
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11.    What was the name of the Java-born Dutch aircraft manufacturer who, during World War I, produced more than 40 types of airplanes for the German High Command?
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12.    Which aircraft manufacturer produced the Spitfire?
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13.    What was the family name of the French brothers who were pioneer developers of the hot-air balloon and who conducted the first untethered flights?
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14.    Who was chief of aeronautical research and development at the British Aircraft Corporation 1945 to 1971, having previously designed the Wellington bomber of World War II?
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15.    Which company produced the world's first commercial jet airliner?
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16.    Who made the world's first over-the-ocean flight in a heavier-than-air craft?
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17.    What name was given to the Boeing B-52 bomber that first flew in 1952?
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18.    What is the name of the Russian-born US pioneer in aircraft design who is best known for his successful development of the helicopter?
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19.    Who was dubbed 'Queen of the Air' by the British press in the 1930s after her solo flight from England to Australia?
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20.    Sydney's main airport is named after which great Australian aviator?
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Aviation - Answers
1    Boeing
2    International Air Transport Association
3    Avionics
4    AWACS
5    Rolls-Royce Merlin
6    Amelia Erhart
7    New Delhi
8    McDonnell-Douglas
9    First man to fly faster than the speed of sound?
10    France
11    Anthony Fokker
12    Supermarine
13    Montgolfier
14    Barnes Wallis
15    De Havilland (the Comet)
16    Louis Bleriot
17    Stratofortress
18    Igor Sikorsky
19    Amy Johnson
20    Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith

Aircraft Quiz

1. What A is an instrument used in aircraft that measures height above sea level?
Altimeter
2. Which aircraft company makes the Jumbo jet?
Boeing
3. By what name is the DC-3 aircraft better known?
Dakota
4. If you were an Apache pilot in the airforce, what sort of aircraft would you be flying?
Helicopter
5. Which type of wind is thought to take its name from the Spanish for "thunderstorm", and in turn has given its name to a type of military aircraft?
Tornado
6. Till it was destroyed in a fire in 1937, the German airship “The Hindenberg” was the biggest aircraft ever to fly – with which gas was the Hindenberg filled?
Hydrogen
7. By what name was the German Junkers JU87 dive-bomber known?
Stuka
8. The De Havilland DH98 was built entirely of wood – how was it more commonly known?
The Mosquito
9. The main German bomber used during the ‘blitz’ was a HE111 – who made these?
Heinkel
10. Which British fighter finally took to the skies in november 1942?
The Typhoon
11. Which bomber was adapted to take the ‘bouncing bomb’?
Avro Lancaster
12. What part of an aircraft is the empennage?
Tail Unit
13. International Aircraft Registration, what country is SU?
Egypt
- International aircraft registration letters, what country is PP or PT?
Brazil
- VH is the international aircraft registration for which country?
Australia
14. What was the worlds first passenger jet aircraft?
Comet
15. With which type of aircraft is Igor Sikorsky associated?
Helicopters
16. What is the B-2 Spirit, a U.S. fighter aircraft, better known as?
Stealth Bomber
17. On 4th August, 1954, Britain's first supersonic fighter plane, made its maiden flight, What was its name?
The English Electric Lightning P-1
18. What name is given to the Black Box which is actually Orange that collects data on an aircraft?
Flight Recorder
19. What does the acronym VTOL stand for when applied to an aircraft?
Vertical take off and landing
20. In 1929 the first what happened on an aircraft?
Birth

21. Aircraft from Great Britain have G as their first registration letter - what letter do American aircraft have?
N
22. Which company manufactured the ‘Tristar’ aircraft?
Lockheed
23. What type of Aircraft made its first trial flight in 1900?
Zeppelin
24. Which company publishes the handbook 'All The World's Aircraft'?
Janes
25. What on aircraft are known as blue rooms?
Toilets
26. Which British aircraft company manufactured the WWII 'Lancaster' bomber?
AVRO
27. Which famous pilot flew an aircraft called 'Jason'?
Amy Johnson
28. In WWII, how was the Japanese aircraft, the Mitsubishi A6M known to the allies?
Zero
29. What V made the aircraft Viscount, Valiant and Vulcan?
Vickers
30. What Was The Name Of The Boeing 747 Aircraft Blown Up Over Lockerbie, Scotland?
Spirit Of The Sea
31. Who manufactured the Merlin engines, used to power the Spitfire fighter aircraft?
Rolls Royce
32. Which one is the name of a military aircraft: Pandacat, Tigercat or Wolfcat?
Tigercat
33. Who was Minister of Aircraft Production in Winston Churchill's wartime Cabinet?
Beaverbrook
34. The are nine aircraft in the RAF Red Arrows display team, how many aircraft are there in the French equivalent 'The Patrouille de France'?
Eight - Alpha Jets
35. The Soviet Sukhoi-34 fighter was the worlds first fighter aircraft with what - a) an ejector seat b) a rear firing cannon or c) a toilet?
Answer c) a toilet fitted in it!
36. Which twin boom aircraft was the only allied jet to enter production during WWII?
Vampire
37. Which aircraft starred in the film 633 Squadron?
Mosquito
38. The RAF Red Arrows display team have nine aircraft, how many aircraft do the National Acrobatic Team "Frecce Tricolori" of the Italian Air Force have?
Ten - Aermacchi MB-339-A/PAN aircraft (They fly with ten MB-339's and they have three spare planes)
39. Who is credited with inventing the Jet engine?
Sir Frank Whittle
40. True or False, According to Alaskan state law it is illegal to look at a Moose through an aircraft window?
True!

-Which South American capital city is laid out in the shape of an aircraft?
Brasilia

Tiebreaker - In which year - US inventor Paul MacCready's aircraft Gossamer Condor makes the first human-powered flight and The first Laker 'Skytrain' flies from London to New York?
1977