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    Cool 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)

    Aviation Quiz 26-mystery-airport-3-jpg

    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.

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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by spongebue View Post
    We're not allowed to use Google, right? I'll assume not...
    Spongebue you assume correctly, NO Google. Besides, the old standby “eeny-meaney-miney moe” way of choosing an answer 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.

    Next contestant.
    Last edited by Migflanker; 02-Aug-2010 at 01:40 PM.
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    Spongebue, have I got a bumpy landing for you. *wink* A landing at NRT YouTube - AeroMexico 767-300ER @ Narita - Landing in the rain
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    Well, I'd much rather take either of those two over this one: Ouch.
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    Quote Originally Posted by spongebue View Post
    I've got my suspicions about that one.
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    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 )
    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.?
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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Migflanker View Post
    NEXT VICTIM!
    Fixed that for ya
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    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.

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