Military
This is the kind of airplane that was being flown by maverick in top gun maverick.
Bonus: what was flown by their adversaries?
What is the F/A-18 E Super Hornet?
Sukhoi T-50/Su-57
The first flight of the Jumbo-Jet happened in this year.
Bonus: it was created by this engineer
What is 1969?
Who is Joe Sutter?
An editorial titled "Flying Machines Which Do Not Fly" was published by the New York Times 69 days before this man piloted the first ever flying aircraft.
Who is Orville Wright?
This is the vehicle used to push airplanes back from the gate.
What is a TUG?
This aircraft has been continuously in production since 1954, the longest produced US military aircraft.
Before being called "Raptor", the YF-22 was called this now-repurposed name.
What is Lightning II?
The largest airplane ever was called this and was being stored in this country when it was destroyed in 2023
What is Antonov AN-225, Ukraine
This historic aircraft/aircraft carrier battle turned the tide for the Americans in the Pacific Theatre of WWII.
What is the battle of Midway?
The beautiful General Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport (KBOS) has this many runways.
What is five?
This company is a popular subsidiary of Textron Aviation, making general aviation aircraft.
What is cessna?
This submarine-hunting airplane is a modified Boeing 737-NG with a sonar torpedo bay
What is the Boeing P8A Poseidon?
The last ever Boeing 747 was delivered to this airline
Bonus: what was the exact model of 747 and the registration of this aircraft?
747-8f, N863GT
The legendary Concorde was powered by this mountainous engine.
What is the Rolls Royce/Snecma Olympus 593?
Airport firetrucks are typically painted this color instead of red.
What is neon green?
Qatar Airlines has this military aircraft painted in their livery.
What is the C-17 Globemaster?
Other than the United States, this is currently the only country who owns aircraft carriers with airplane catapults.
Bonus: They launch this domestically-made kind of aircraft off of them
What is france?
What is the Dassault Rafale-M?
A version control issue between softwares used by teams in France and teams in Germany caused this aircraft to be delayed for 2 years and to cost its manufacturer an estimated 6 billion dollars
What is the Airbus A380-800?
This WWII-era Luftwaffe Ace is credited with the most number of air-to-air kills ever, with a staggering 352 kills.
Who is Erich Hartmann?
Landings at this airport happen directly over a populated beach. Beachgoers umbrellas are frequently blown away by jet engines here.
What is Sint Maarten island?
This predecessor of NASA published the most wide-ranging study of airfoils ever in 1933, setting the standard for airfoil design until today.
What is NACA?
This was the engine on the Northrop YF-23 PAV-2 "Grey Ghost".
Toned down version: this company manufactures the engines for the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor.
What is the General Electric YF-120?
What is Pratt and Whitney?
This mysterious airline uses red-and-white Boeing 737s to shuttle people to classified locations. Nobody can buy a ticket, but passengers fly for free.
This aviator and his squadron piloted their bombers off of aircraft carriers and struck Tokyo for the first time in WWII, before parachuting out into China.
Who is Jimmy Doolittle?
These two airports, one active and one inactive, are known for being difficult approaches due to how late the approach is stabilized, and the many turns that are required to be made on the way in.
What is Paro, Bhutan (active) and Kai-Tak, Hong Kong (inactive)?
The 747 possesses these high-lift devices on the front of its multi-element airfoil that are extended during takeoff and landing phases of flight.
What are Krueger flaps?