History
The year that the Wright brothers first flew
What is 1903
What is the largest aircraft currently flying, retaliative to maximum payload that is in active service?
What is the Airbus A380-800?
True or False: There was a cargo version of the A380.
What is false? The A380-800F was never produced, but it was proposed at one time.
Trans-World Airlines' name before 1950.
What is Transcontinental & Western Air?
the smallest air Force in the world
What is Luxembourg?
The city that the Wright Brothers were from
What is Columbus, OH
The most produced aircraft type of all time.
BONUS!
An extra 200 points if you guess the 2nd place spot.
An extra 300 points if you guess the 3rd place spot.
What is the Cessna 172?
200 points: What is the Ilyushin Il-2?
300 points: What is the Messerschmitt Bf 109?
The nickname for the F-104 given to it by German pilots.
What is "Widowmaker"?
"You might be thinking to yourself, 'Oh boy I want a Starfighter!' Research shows that the most effective way is to buy a patch of land and wait for a West German pilot to crash into it."
-Messier 82, on the F-104
The first airline to operate the 747.
What is Pan-Am?
True or False: During WWII, the P-51D was operated by the United States Air Force.
False!
At that time, the USAF was the USAAC (United States Army Air Corps), and later the USAAF (United States Army Air Forces). It would not be named the United States Air Force until it gained independence from the Army in 1947.
The phrase that Juan Trippe coined about the 747
What is "In one fell swoop, we have shrunken the Earth."
The reason the F-117 was given a fighter designation rather than a bomber designation.
What is the fact that the F-117 required fighter pilots in order to fly it?
In what country was the last F-104 manufactured?
What is Italy?
The last Starfighter (In F-104S form) was manufactured in Turin, Italy, by Aeritalia (formly Fiat).
The color of British West India Airline's logo.
What is pink?
The amount of aircraft in Estonia's Air Force.
BONUS: The primary type of aircraft in Estonia's Air Force.
What is 5?
BONUS: What is the L-39?
The date that the Airbus A300 prototype first flew.
What is December 25th, 1974?
All of the main variants of the Dassault Mirage.
Hint: Five of the seven variants are numbers.
What is the Mirage III, IV, IV, 2000, 4000, F1, and G?
The aircraft that, the USAF widely called "the most versatile aircraft in our inventory".
What is the Rockwell (North American) Sabreliner?
(No official public statement was made using these words. However, the USAF has said that it is a "multi-faceted utility" aircraft in it's statements.)
What airlines operated the Concorde, other than Air France and British Airways?
What are Braniff International and Singapore Airlines?
the oldest air force in the world
What is the RAF?
Marcel Dassault's birth name
Who is Marcel Bloch?
The Mach number that the X-15 reached at it's fastest flight.
What is Mach 6.7?
(No, it's not funny. Stop laughing. Stop doing 67. STOP IT. STOP IT!!!!)
The oldest aircraft still in operational service.
What is the MiG-17?
North Korea has been operating their MiG-17s in front-line service since 1953. Other old aircraft are the 737-200 operated by Nolinor, the B-52 in general, and the AN-2.
The year was Delta Airlines founded.
What is 1925?
The year that Paupa New Guinea's Air Force was formally established.
What is 2024?