Aviation Quiz 26

Aviation quiz 26
This quiz tests your general aviation knowledge. As usual you’re not to Goggle, or ask your friend that knows all that airplane stuff. (Where‘s the fun in that?)
The quiz is multiple (mostly) choice, meaning you have a chance of getting the correct answer just by closing your eyes and pointing. However please post your answers as it makes it a lot easier for me to score.
As with previous quizzes there is no prize, just bragging rights on the board.
Nick won Quiz 25 and is on the way to the Forum Aviation Quiz Hall Of Fame.

1. Aircraft usually land and takeoff
a---into the wind
b---with the wind at their back
c---with modern aircraft wind is not a factor.

2. A touch and go landing involves
a---landing without bouncing
b---a landing followed by immediate application of power to takeoff again without bringing the aircraft to a stop
c---a very quick turnaround

3. Ailerons are located on an airplane’s
a---engine
b---landing gear
c---wings

4. This answer tests your power of observation. What is this plane doing?
EI-DLB - Ryanair Boeing 737-800 Aircraft @ Airplane-Pictures.net
a---landing
b---taking off
c---I don’t know, but that’s a great photo.

5. What airline was the first to establish a home page on the internet?
a---American
b---Delta
c---Southwest
d---United

6. This airport’s runway is bisected by a busy road (good thing they have those orange & white barriers). Where is this airport? (see photo below)

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a---Gibraltar
b---Saint Maarten
c---Netherland Antilles

7. The Beatles song “Back in the USSR” opens with the sound of an airplane.
Name the aircraft. And no it’s not impossible, here's a link to the song YouTube - The beatles - Back in the USSR - just listen to those engines (that whining sound it’s a dead giveaway *wink*) You have a 1 out of 3 chance! :LOL:
a---Boeing 707
b---Vickers Viscount
c---Tupolev TU-124

8. An easy one- ZED is an acronym for
A---Zonal Employee Deduction
B---Zonal Employee Discount
C---Zonal Employee (travel) Discount

9. Originally I was known as Candler Field, but I've gone through a few names changes since then. I'm very busy and some say (actually only one person I know said this, but he was very very insistent) that I was built on old Coke bottle caps. Name the airport.
No additional hints, reread the question for a clue.

10. The following passage is describing what event?
"Twenty minutes after 10 o'clock suddenly and softly there slipped out of the darkness a gray-white airplane as 25,000 pairs of eyes strained toward it." "...lines of soldiers, ranks of policemen and stout steel fences went down before a mad rush as irresistible as the tides of ocean."
a---The Wright Brothers first flight at Kitty Hawk.
b---Charles Lindbergh landing in France.
c---Chuck Yeager landing after breaking the sound barrier.
c---The Beatles in 1964 arriving at JFK.
Be careful now, this one is tricky.

Have Fun!

We're not allowed to use Google, right? I'll assume not...

1: A, airplanes take off into the wind. Unless you're in EAU, in which case they'll send you to runway 4/22 since it's so long (about 8000 feet)
2: B, pretty sure
3: C! The wings! Yay, that aviation class in high school came in handy!
4: Landing, and it looks like it'll be a typical RyanAir one at that (very, very bumpy)
5: For some reason I'm not seeing Southwest or Delta here, I'm gonna go with American or United. Hmm... let's say United.
6: Having had previous experience on said busy road crossing said runway, I can say with confidence that this is Gibraltar.
7: I'm not to the point where I can identify any airplane by noise really, but let's go with the 707. Lucky guess? Hopefully.
8: Pretty familiar question there. Zonal Employee Discount!
9: Sounds like Atlanta?
10: I'm gonna go with Lindbergh reaching France.

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Originally Posted by spongebue

We're not allowed to use Google, right? I'll assume not...

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Spongebue you assume correctly, NO Google. Besides, the old standby “eeny-meaney-miney moe” way of choosing an answerhttp://bestsmileys.com/computer1/9.gif does gives you a 1 in 3 chance of being correct - assuming of course the correct answer is in the list to begin with.
Now Spongebue for your answers, some of them are correct and some are incorrect. And that’s all I’m saying for now. http://bestsmileys.com/lol/6.gif

Next contestant.

Spongebue, have I got a bumpy landing for you. *wink* A landing at NRT YouTube - AeroMexico 767-300ER @ Narita - Landing in the rain

Well, I'd much rather take either of those two over this one: Ouch.

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Originally Posted by spongebue

Ouch.

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I've got my suspicions about that one.

OK late entrant here:
1: a---into the wind
2: b---a landing followed by immediate application of power to takeoff again without bringing the aircraft to a stop
3: c---wings
4: b---taking off (should have linked direct to the pic... the thread below shows the photographer giving away the answer!!!!)
5: a---American (Mig your planes are ancient so I reckon website too :p )
6: a---Gibraltar (did I mention I am going to SXM in NOV.... heck yes!)
7: a---Boeing 707
8: B---Zonal Employee Discount
9: ATL... coke bottle caps, coke was founded here?
10: No idea.... c---The Beatles in 1964 arriving at JFK.?

Hmmm, that's not bad Nick. Like Spongebue you have some right and some wrong answers. Lets see if we can get one or two more players.

NEXT!

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Originally Posted by Migflanker

NEXT VICTIM!

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Fixed that for ya

Hope not too late.

1. Aircraft usually land and takeoff
b---with the wind at their back

2. A touch and go landing involves
b---a landing followed by immediate application of power to takeoff again without bringing the aircraft to a stop

3. Ailerons are located on an airplane’s
c---wings

4. This answer tests your power of observation. What is this plane doing?
EI-DLB - Ryanair Boeing 737-800 Aircraft @ Airplane-Pictures.net
a---landing

5. What airline was the first to establish a home page on the internet?
a---American

6. This airport’s runway is bisected by a busy road (good thing they have those orange & white barriers). Where is this airport? (see photo below)

a---Gibraltar

7. The Beatles song “Back in the USSR” opens with the sound of an airplane.
Name the aircraft. And no it’s not impossible, here's a link to the song YouTube - The beatles - Back in the USSR - just listen to those engines (that whining sound it’s a dead giveaway *wink*) You have a 1 out of 3 chance! :LOL:
c---Tupolev TU-124

8. An easy one- ZED is an acronym for
C---Zonal Employee (travel) Discount

9. Originally I was known as Candler Field, but I've gone through a few names changes since then. I'm very busy and some say (actually only one person I know said this, but he was very very insistent) that I was built on old Coke bottle caps. Name the airport.
No additional hints, reread the question for a clue.
ATL

10. The following passage is describing what event?
"Twenty minutes after 10 o'clock suddenly and softly there slipped out of the darkness a gray-white airplane as 25,000 pairs of eyes strained toward it." "...lines of soldiers, ranks of policemen and stout steel fences went down before a mad rush as irresistible as the tides of ocean."
b---Charles Lindbergh landing in France.

No Bgeller you’re not to late. The quiz is still open. Like Spongebue and Nick you have some right and some wrong answers.
Going to give the quiz a little longer, just to see if anyone can get a perfect score. ( Although I seriously doubt it, this is a very tricky quizhttp://bestsmileys.com/lol/6.gif )
Who will be the next contestant to enter the arena?

okay so here are 2 more late entrants! lol i say 2 coz my 10yr old DS wanted to have a go too!!

1st lot:
b
a
b
a
b
a
b
b
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b

2nd lot
b
b
c
b
a
a
a
b
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d

lol plz let me know which set got more right lol!!

Alright, *drum roll* Nazlhr#1 has four correct and Nazlhr#2 has five correct.
So Nazlhr, are you smarter than a 10 year old?

BTW, you might get a kick out of my plane spotting adventure with a group of 8-10 year olds. It was a “belching extravaganza“. http://bestsmileys.com/lol/6.gif
http://nonrev.net/open-discussion/14...mus-prime.html

Oh, and welcome aboard.

ha ha lol!! I was only one correct answer better than my DS lol!! He loves plane, watch all trhe aircraft investigation programmee lol!!
and thx for welcome!!
and oh my DS would have loved that spotting adventure!! We are in LHR here and live not far from there. And not to mention the staff Carpark in right beneath the flight path some few hundred yards from the runway. I will try and post some pics ( none that are as professional as you lo9l lol) but they give my DS such a buzz to stand just beneath then lol!!

1-INTO THE WIND

2-TOGA. (Touch and Go AROUND) Pilot clicks this button on his throttles just below the handle to get the airplane out of danger when landing. Engages throttles to full thrust.

3. Ailerons are on the wing.

4. Pilot just landed. See the smoke on the runway, that's the tires that hit the runway on landing creating that dust.

5. First airline to establish an internet page? I don't know. UNITED?

6. That airport is in Gibraltar. I just saw something on this on TV the other night. Believe it or not.

7. Boeing 707. It does kinda like sound like the whispering jet B-727 a little.

8. Zonal Employee Discount

9. no clue how about Chicago's O'hare

10. Charles Linbergh lands in France.

Whoops. Airplane is taking off. Flaps are not all the way down. It's in the t/o config. Smoke is from wet runway. (According to co-workers I showed this too.) My bust.

Very interesting Palms, very interesting.

The quiz will be closing shortly, if you're stuck you may ask one friend, persumably one who knows a DC10 from a 747.

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Originally Posted by 29palms

Whoops. Airplane is taking off. Flaps are not all the way down. It's in the t/o config. Smoke is from wet runway. (According to co-workers I showed this too.) My bust.

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So is this your new consensus answer? *wink*

No, I stick with my original answer. I don't cheat. I said LANDING. (But I know its wrong.) I don't get what you mean about asking a friend for an answer that knows the difference between a DC-10 and a B-747. 3 engines (dc-10) versus 4 engines, of two per wing B-747 verses an engine on the tail for the DC-10, versus the upper deck for the 747....who or what to ask? Kind of a no brainer.

Palms you will not drive me crazy.

BTW, I just noticed, I now have over 2000 posts. I officially spend too much time on this board. http://bestsmileys.com/lol/5.gif

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9Atlanta
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Aviation Quiz 26 is closed.

1. Aircraft usually land and takeoff
a---into the wind
b---with the wind at their back
c---with modern aircraft wind is not a factor.

Answer: A - into the wind

2. A touch and go landing involves
a---landing without bouncing
b---a landing followed by immediate application of power to takeoff again without bringing the aircraft to a stop
c---a very quick turnaround

Answer: B - a landing followed by immediate application of power to takeoff again without bringing the aircraft to a stop.

3. Ailerons are located on an airplane’s
a---engine
b---landing gear
c---wings

Answer: C - wings

4. This answer tests your power of observation. What is this plane doing?
EI-DLB - Ryanair Boeing 737-800 Aircraft @ Airplane-Pictures.net
a---landing
b---taking off
c---I don’t know, but that’s a great photo.

Answer: B - 29 Palms’ coworkers are correct. The airplane is taking off - it’s all about the flaps *wink*

5. What airline was the first to establish a home page on the internet?
a---American
b---Delta
c---Southwest
d---United

Answer: C - "Southwest was the first airline to establish a home page on the Internet. Initially, five Employees comprised Southwest’s web site development team, and the site took about nine months to create."
Source: Southwest Airlines Fact Sheet (Southwest.Com)

6. This airport’s runway is bisected by a busy road (good thing they have those orange & white barriers). Where is this airport? (see photo below)

Attachment 377

a---Gibraltar
b---Saint Maarten
c---Netherland Antilles

Answer: A

7. The Beatles song “Back in the USSR” opens with the sound of an airplane.
Name the aircraft. And no it’s not impossible, here's a link to the song YouTube - The beatles - Back in the USSR - just listen to those engines (that whining sound it’s a dead giveaway *wink*) You have a 1 out of 3 chance! :LOL:
a---Boeing 707
b---Vickers Viscount
c---Tupolev TU-124

Answer: B - Ok I‘ll admit this was a tricky one. But I did give you a clue in your options,
an American Boeing 707, an English Vickers Viscount and a Russian Tupolev TU-124.
The Beatles are an English music group, soooo……..it’s the Viscount.
Ok, it‘s a rather cryptic clue, but Nazlhr#1 our 10 year old contestant managed to get it right. He was the only one.

8. An easy one- ZED is an acronym for
A---Zonal Employee Deduction
B---Zonal Employee Discount
C---Zonal Employee (travel) Discount

Anwser: B & C - Like tomato, tomaato- not much of a difference. Some people include the word “travel” some don’t. In the end it’s still ZED

9. Originally I was known as Candler Field, but I've gone through a few names changes since then. I'm very busy and some say (actually only one person I know said this, but he was very very insistent) that I was built on old Coke bottle caps. Name the airport.
No additional hints, reread the question for a clue.

Answer: Atlanta - The clue was in the question - “Some say I (airport) was built on old Coke bottle caps”. Atlanta is the birthplace of Coca-Cola……. talk about a great clue.

10. The following passage is describing what event?
"Twenty minutes after 10 o'clock suddenly and softly there slipped out of the darkness a gray-white airplane as 25,000 pairs of eyes strained toward it." "...lines of soldiers, ranks of policemen and stout steel fences went down before a mad rush as irresistible as the tides of ocean."
a---The Wright Brothers first flight at Kitty Hawk.
b---Charles Lindbergh landing in France.
c---Chuck Yeager landing after breaking the sound barrier.
c---The Beatles in 1964 arriving at JFK.
Be careful now, this one is tricky.

Answer: B, Charles Lindbergh landing in France. - On this one you really only had two viable options, Lindbergh and the Beatles. Now Nick and Nazlhr#2, do you really think the Beatles arrived at JFK, in the middle of the night?

Scores
Nick - 7
Skymanbc -7
Spongebue - 7
(Test Pilot)-- You're adventurous, energetic and thrive under pressure.
You enjoy leaving things to the last minute and will work on some small, tiny, part of a problem for months, then finish the entire project in a 48 hour marathon. You love to travel and like the "adventure" of nonrevving, however you do have a rather strange fascination with gas stations, which is why even after returning from the most exotic locale, you know the price of gas

29 Palms - 6
Bgeller - 6
(Aviator)--- You’re energetic and love to travel….ah the choices. By air, land or sea you always “ready to roll”.
You really love airplanes, the hustle and bustle of airports and can sleep on a rock.
You're airline knowledgeable and are punctual to a fault.
In fact if it wasn’t your need to carry every charger and cable to all your electronic gadgets in your carry-on, (triggering the secondary screening-- every-- single-- time you travel) you’d be the perfect travel companion.

Nazlhr#2 - 5
(Wing walker)--- You're a little crazy and somewhat unpredictable, no doubt a result of your many years of power breathing jet fumes and/or being dropped one to many times on your head. You love traveling to exotic places and are a sharp and tenacious bargainer. You have a discerning eye and are quick to notice small flaws; which is a fine trait when bargaining for tapestries in Peru, but a major liability when your spouse is asking how they look.

Nazlhr#1 - 4 correct and winner of the “wow, I’m impressed award“. 　
(Barnstormer)--- You're observant and a good listener and have picked up lots of aviation knowledge just by watching TV aviation programs. You have an inquiring mind and always have to ask the big “why” questions. You have a head for business and saw immediately the profit in being nearby during secondary security checks. You love to non-rev and can sleep through anything - movies, crying babies, sunlight streaming through your neighbor’s window nothing bothers you. At Christmas you're known for your generous gift baskets of water bottles, shampoo and large tubes of toothpaste

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Congratulations to our three winners, Nick, Skymanbc and Spongebue.
The new Aviation Quiz virtual Trophy will be delivered by PM in a quiet and dignified (as befits) virtual ceremony. And yes there are three trophies, no virtual money was spared. http://bestsmileys.com/lol/6.gifhttp://bestsmileys.com/lol/6.gif

Hope you had fun.