Thread: 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)



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!