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Manufacturers and airlines
Military
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IF YOU GET THIS WRONG YOU HAVE TO SUBTRACT 100 POINTS - Who built the first airplane?
The Wright Brothers
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What government agency oversees aviation
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
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Most popular airplane
What is the Cessna 172
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What airline in notorious for landing hard?
Ryanair
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This plane makes up Fresno's 144th fighter wing
F-15C Eagle
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Fastest aircraft
What is the X-15
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What airline does the president fly with AND what plane?
Air Force One, on a Boeing 747
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Fastest commercial aviation plane
What is the Concorde?
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Which is older; Boeing or Airbus?
Boeing (107 yrs), while Airbus is only 54 yrs old
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Referred to as the most advanced airplane in the world
Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning ll
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What is the shortest commercial runway in the world?
Saba's Juancho E. Irausquin Airport at just 400 meters (1312 ft)
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How do planes stop on aircraft carriers?
With the use of tailhooks, which hook to arrester cables
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What does APU stand for
Auxilary Power Unit
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First airline
A - Aeroflot
B - DELAG (Deutsche Luftschiffahrts-Aktiengesellschaft or German Airship Company)
C - American Airlines
D - China Eastern Airlines
B - DELAG
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What military plane has "supercruise", which allows it to cruise at supersonic speeds - without afterburner?
F-22 Raptor
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First plane to break the sound barrier
Bell X-1 Rocket
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Nickname for the flight data recorder
Black box
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What was the first commercial plane built with composite materials?
Boeing's 787 Dreamliner
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Which airline is Brazilian
A - Boeing
B - Embraer
C - Airbus
D - Bombardier
B - Embraer
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What plane can accelerate vertically?
F-15E Strike Eagle
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What does the flight sim X-Plane use to accurately predict what the given airplane will do, making the flight model and physics better?
Blade Element Theory
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What system caused the Boeing 737-8 MAX to crash twice?
MCAS (Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System)
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Fastest commercial plane that still flies today
Boeing 747 with speeds of 706 mph at sea level, or Mach 0.92
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What year was Alaska Airlines founded?
1932 in Anchorage, Alaska
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What was the first plane to do a cobra maneuver?
Sukhoi su-27 (at the Le Bourget airshow)