The Airline Industry
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Potential Bonus Questions
200

A number of firms that produce similar goods is known as this.

An industry

200

The TSA is part of this government department.

Homeland Security

200

This made for business aircraft, now it's own brand, was first manufactured by Grumman.

Gulfstream

200

This role at the FAA is responsible for inspecting air carriers and ensuring safety.

ASI

200

This is the class you are currently in.

AV306

400

These airlines provided scheduled service on fixed routes.

Trunk

400

Aviation is a major consumer of these services.

Advertising/legal/Accounting/Data Processing

400

These three men, all of whom would later go on to found other companies, pooled their resources to form the Travel Air Manufacturing Company in 1925.

Walter Beech, Lloyd Stearman, and Clyde Cessna

400

This trade group represents operators of business aircraft.

NBAA

400

In the movie Airplane!, this is what Leon is doing.

Getting larger.

500

The Airline Deregulation Act mandated the CAB pass its functions to this department.

DOT

500

This is a major difference between EASA and the FAA.

Responsibility for regulatory enforcement.

500

This Beechcraft won the Texaco Trophy Race only two months after critics said a 200mph 4 place cabin biplane was impossible.

Beech Model 17 Staggerwing

500

This trade group represents the interests of GA pilots in the US.

AOPA

500

While keeping up foreign relations in Top Gun, Maverick encounters this type of enemy plane.

MiG 28

800

Under congressional mandate, communities that stood to lose service as part of deregulation were placed under this program. KCGI is a participant.

Essential Air Service

800

This board is responsible for investigating transportation accidents and incidents.

NTSB

800

Unlike other aviation companies, this company was located in Pennsylvania. William Piper would purchase it and later change the name in 1936.

Taylor Aircraft

800

Cessna used lean manufacturing principles to better utilize existing space to manufacture this line of aircraft.

CJs

800

What are the real four forces of flight?

Dreams, Money, the FAA, and Reality

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1000

Tight marketing partnerships between the regional and major airlines is known as this.

Code Sharing

1000

This is the principle civil aviation product.

Air Transport
1000

This component was a major factor in BizAv taking off in the 1050s.

Turbine Engine

1000

A study by 8 aviation groups determined that this industry supported 1.33 million jobs and contributed $339.2 billion in the US.

General Aviation

1000

This airplane had the nicknames "The St. Louis Slugger" and "The World's Leading Supplier of MiG Parts". 

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