Aviation
This 1977 disaster, involving two Boeing 747s, remains the deadliest aviation accident in history.
What is the Tenerife airport disaster?
This country’s flag consists of three horizontal stripes of black, red, and gold.
What is Germany?
This now-defunct airline, known for its iconic blue globe logo, was one of the largest international airlines in the 20th century.
What is Pan American World Airways (Pan Am)?
This is the most commonly selected meal by passengers on flights.
What is chicken?
This global navigation satellite system, developed by the United States, provides geolocation and time information to a GPS receiver.
What is the Global Positioning System (GPS)?
This American aviator made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
This lake is the deepest and oldest freshwater lake in the world.
What is Lake Baikal?
This airline, founded in 1927, is the oldest continuously operating airline in the world.
What is KLM Royal Dutch Airlines?
This airline’s “Flying Chef” program offers personalized meal services in first and business class on long-haul flights.
What is Turkish Airlines?
This term refers to the imaginary lines that aircraft follow in the sky, often used to manage air traffic.
What are airways or flight corridors?
This aircraft holds the record for the longest non-stop flight by a commercial airliner, covering over 15,000 kilometers.
What is the Boeing 787 Dreamliner?
This mountain range, stretching over 7,000 kilometers, is the longest continental mountain range in the world.
What are the Andes?
This airline, founded in 1926 as Varney Air Lines, is now one of the largest airlines in the world.
What is United Airlines?
This company, one of the largest airline catering services in the world, prepares meals for over 200 airlines and operates in more than 60 countries.
What is Gate Gourmet?
This system, used in modern aircraft, combines GPS with inertial navigation to provide highly accurate position information.
What is the Inertial Reference System (IRS)?
This French aviator was the first woman to fly solo across the English Channel in 1912.
Who is Harriet Quimby?
This landlocked country in the Himalayas is known for measuring its success by Gross National Happiness.
What is Bhutan?
This airline, founded by Tony Fernandes in 2001, revolutionized low-cost travel in Asia.
What is AirAsia?
This celebrity chef partnered with Singapore Airlines to create exclusive in-flight menus for their passengers.
Who is Gordon Ramsay?
This instrument, also known as the artificial horizon, shows the aircraft’s orientation relative to the Earth’s horizon.
What is the attitude indicator?
This aviator set the record for the fastest circumnavigation of the Earth in a single-engine aircraft in 2014.
Who is Matt Guthmiller?
This city is the highest capital in the world
What is La Paz?
What is Avianca?
This process, crucial in airline food preparation, involves rapidly cooling cooked food to prevent bacterial growth before it is reheated on the plane.
What is blast chilling?
I invented the first practical radar to detect aircraft.
Who is Sir Robert Watson-Watt?