Fun Facts
This is the busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic.
What is Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport?
This FAA academy located in Oklahoma trains future Air Traffic Controllers.
What is the FAA Academy in Oklahoma City?
This force keeps airplanes in the air.
What is lift?
Pilots control roll using these wing surfaces.
What are ailerons?
This company makes the 737 and 787.
What is Boeing?
The Wright brothers made the first powered flight in this U.S. state.
What is North Carolina?
Controllers in this position manage aircraft while they taxi and move on airport surfaces but not on the runway.
What is Ground Control?
Airplane wings are shaped this way to create lift.
What is an airfoil?
This instrument shows aircraft altitude.
What is an altimeter?
This aircraft is currently the largest passenger airplane ever built.
What is the Airbus A380?
Commercial airplanes usually cruise at about this altitude.
What is around 35,000 feet?
To become an Air Traffic Controller in the U.S., applicants typically must be hired before this maximum age.
What is 31 years old?
Jet engines work mainly using this principle discovered by Newton.
What is Newton’s Third Law?
The person in command of the aircraft is called this.
What is the Captain?
This famous supersonic passenger jet could fly faster than sound.
What is the Concorde?
The black box on airplanes is actually this color.
What is orange?
This ATC position is responsible for sequencing arriving aircraft and guiding them safely toward the airport before handing them to the control tower.
What is Approach Control?
Flaps primarily help airplanes do this during landing.
What is increase lift / slow down?
Before takeoff, pilots complete this important safety list.
What is a checklist?
This stealth fighter jet is nicknamed the “Raptor.”
What is the F-22?
The term “Mayday” comes from a French phrase meaning this.
What is “Help me” (m’aidez)?
This Air Traffic Control instruction tells a pilot to abort takeoff immediately due to unsafe conditions.
What is “Cancel takeoff clearance” or “Abort takeoff”?
This happens when airflow separates from the wing due to too high angle.
What is a stall?
This maneuver happens when an aircraft circles an airport before landing again.
What is a go-around?
This long-range twin-engine Boeing aircraft was the first commercial airplane designed entirely using computer-aided design (CAD) and is nicknamed the “Dreamliner.”
What is the Boeing 787?