Aviation Incidents
The shoe bomber of 2001 attempted to explode this airline, departing from Paris en route to Miami.
What is American Airlines?
In the San Fransico Bay Area, there is the San Fransico International Airport (SFO), the San Jose International Airport (SJC), and this other international airport, located across the bay from SFO.
What is the Oakland International Airport?
It's Hawaii's major airline.
What is Hawaiian Airlines?
In 2020 Boeing flew it's first test flight of this new aircraft, the successor to the current 777 models.
What is the 777-X (777-9)?
This leading maker of commercial jets & military aircraft is also NASA's prime contractor for the Intl. Space Station.
What is Boeing?
Atlas Air Flight 3591 crashed on final in 2019 near this major U.S city.
What is Houston?
What is the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport?
This low-fare airline founded in 1999 & based at JFK began flights by offering 36 free DirecTV channels at every seat.
What is JetBlue?
What is the CRJ-700?
MCAS is the acronym for this.
What is Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System
What is British Airways
Currently, an A350 flight between Newark Liberty International Airport and this airport is the longest scheduled commercial flight.
What is the Singapore Changi International Airport?
In 1952 this airline's De Havilland Comets became the first jet passenger planes put into commercial service.
What is BOAC?
Introduced by Boeing in 1982, this new aircraft began service with Eastern Airlines.
What is the Boeing 757?
There's the hub-and-spoke model, where airlines focus on flying from smaller cities to a major hub for passengers to connect. But there is also this three-word model, where Airlines limit hubs and fly between smaller "spoke cities".
What is the point-to-point model?
This flight disintegrated due to metal fatigue mid-air from Taiwan to Hong Kong.
What is China Airlines Flight 611?
This airport, named for a former mayor, served the Denver community for 66 years until it closed in 1995 and was replaced by the Denver International Airport.
What is Stapleton Airport?
The world record for most passengers on an aircraft was on a 747 for this airline, which helped rescue thousands during Operation Solomon in 1991.
What is El Al?
The first transatlantic solo flight was with Charles Lindbergh on this aircraft.
What is The Spirit of St. Louis?
Greater than supersonic it's the term for a speed 5 times faster than the speed of sound
Part of the aircraft's fuselage flew out during this flight from Hilo to Honolulu, Hawaii.
What is Aloha Airlines Flight 243?
Named after Ilan Ramon, an astrontaunt who died on Space Shuttle Columbia, the Ramon Airport is located in this Middle Eastern nation.
What is Israel?
Founded in 2004, this European low-cost airline has two hubs, one in Rome, and one in Barcelona.
What is Vueling?
Superfortress was another name for this type of plane that dropped the atomic bombs in 1945
What is a B-29?
These two companies are the biggest makers of commercial jet aircraft engines in the United States.
What is GE & Pratt and Whitney?