This is the name of the aircraft that was originally designed by the Wright Brothers.
What is the Wright Flyer?
100
The magnetic heading 270 corresponds to this direction.
What is west?
100
This control surface increases the drag and lift on an aircraft.
What are flaps?
100
This principle describing the relation between fluid pressure and velocity explains how powered aircraft can fly.
What is Bernoulli's Principle?
100
This is the minimum age at which one can solo in a powered aircraft.
What is 16 years old.
200
This war was the first in which military aircraft were developed on a large scale.
What is World War I.
200
This condition makes aircraft responsible for announcing their location and intentions to other aircraft.
What is a nontowered airport?
200
This term describes the rotational movement of an aircraft along it's vertical axis.
What is yaw?
200
(Daily Double) These materials are being implemented into modern aircraft to improve efficiency and durability.
What are composite materials?
200
Incidents with this device have increased 1100% since 2005, distracting pilots upon landing.
What are high-energy laser pointers?
300
Charles Lindbergh flew this monoplane on the first nonstop flight from New York to Paris.
What is the Spirit of St. Louis?
300
This is the class of airspace around very high-traffic areas, and extends up to 10,000 feet MSL.
What is Class B airspace?
300
This is the factor that is the main influence as to which runway aircraft take off from.
What is (taking off opposite) the direction at which the wind is blowing?
300
Modern commercial aircraft use this type of engine.
What is a turbofan engine?
300
This is the name of the flight simulator we practice takeoffs and landings with.
What is Microsoft Flight?
400
This aviator from Bridgeport, Connecticut, is claimed to have sustained the first powered flight in an aircraft two years before the Wright Brothers.
Who is Augustus Whitehead?
400
This is the colloquial term for an specific transponder code given to pilots by controllers when flying with IFR.
What is a squawk code?
400
This is the leg of the traffic pattern in which the pilot flies parallel to the intended runway for landing.
What is the downwind leg?
400
Engineers hope to improve aircraft stealth by modeling wing shape after this animal.
What is an owl?
400
This organization hosted the fly-out with which members of our club partook in.
What is the Experimental Aircraft Association?
500
This aircraft holds the record of the longest wingspan of any aircraft in history
What is the "Spruce Goose" (Hughes H-4 Hercules)
500
The name of the system in which aircraft can determine their position and stay on course by receiving very-high-frequency radio signals transmitted by a network of fixed ground radio beacons.
What is a very-high-frequency omni-directional radio range? (VOR)
500
This term describes a set of regulations under which a pilot operates an aircraft in weather conditions generally clear enough to allow the pilot to see where the aircraft is going.
What are Visual Flight Rules (VFR)
500
NASA has created a special coating for aircraft wings that is specifically designed to combat this factor, which decreases efficiency.
What are insects?
500
This is the approximate number of active general aircraft in the US as of March 2011.