Birds of Prey
Legends of the Skies
What's your Vector Victor?
The Right Stuff
Checkride Prep
100
This iconic American fighter of World War II was powered by a Merlin engine in its later versions and is often called the "Cadillac of the skies."
What is the P-51 Mustang
100
Flying a Bell X-1 nicknamed Glamorous Glennis, this military test pilot became the first human to officially break the sound barrier in 1947.
Who is Chuck Yeager?
100
Flying under a very low cloud ceiling is known as ________ running
What is "scud" running
100
Tom Cruise returned as Pete "Maverick" Mitchell in this 2022 sequel that featured real fighter jet flying sequences.
What is Top Gun: Maverick?
100
Class A airspace begins at ________ ft. and ends at _________ ft.
What 18,000 ft. - 60,000 ft.
200
Which Country flew the first jet powered aircraft in 1939?
What is Germany
200
In 1932, she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, navigating from Newfoundland to Northern Ireland
Who is Amelia Earhart?
200
Landing with the engine not running (or after an engine failure) is called a __________ landing
What is a "deadstick" landing
200
Tom Hanks plays the calmest man in New York in this 2016 film abut landing a plane on a river and somehow making it look easy.
What is Sully?
200
I have two large friends in the back of my airplane, creating an aft CG, so I can expect my stall speed to be ______
What is higher
300
This World War II Japanese carrier-based fighter was highly maneuverable and dominated the early Pacific theater until Allied pilots learned its weaknesses.
What is the Mitsubishi Zero?
300
This aviation "power-couple" founded King Schools, one of the world's leading producers of aviation training multimedia
Who is John and Martha King?
300
A small area of clear weather that pilots are tempted to fly towards in an otherwise area of marginal/bad weather is called a _______ hole
What is a "sucker" hole
300
This 1979 spoof of disaster movies features the immortal line: "Surely you can't be serious" "I am serious... and don't call me Shirley."
What is Airplane!?
300
It's a good idea to fly at or below this speed in significant turbulence
What is maneuvering speed? (Va)
400
This famous British biplane fighter of World War I was known for its twin Vickers machine guns synchornized to fire through the propeller and was flown by many Allied aces.
What is the Sopwith Camel?
400
This naval aviator and test pilot became the first American in space and later walked on the Moon as commander of Apollo 14
Who is Alan Shapard?
400
On a carrier landing, when the Landing Signal Officer tells you to go around it's a _____________
What is a wave-off
400
The Airline 16-year-old Leonardo DiCaprio (Frank Abagnale) works for in the film "Catch Me If You Can"
What is Pan-Am
400
This WAAS based GPS approach will get me very low, similar to ILS minimums
What is an LPV approach?
500
This experimental aircraft flown in the mid-fifties was so loud it often made ground and air crews sick and disoriented and could be heard from 25 miles away.
What is the XF-84 Thunderscreech?
500
This Russian-American designed the first practical helicopter and founded a company still famous for them.
Who is Igor Sikorsky?
500
Passengers who crowd around the boarding gate long before boarding starts are jokingly called _________
What is "gate lice"
500
The name of the inflatable automatic pilot in the movie "Airplane!"
What is "Otto"
500
I can assume the winds are this if I see '9900' on a winds aloft report
What is light and variable?