Aeronautical Nonsense
An aerial battle between fighter aircraft conducted at close range.
What is a dogfight?
A gregarious Eurasian crow with black plumage and a bare face, the second most valuable piece in Chess.
What is a Rook?
The main antagonist in Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey series.
Who is HAL 9000?
A fabrication process that joins materials by using high heat to melt the parts together and allowing them to cool, causing fusion.
What is welding?
This non-serrated table cutlery designed with a dull edge and rounded point.
What is a butter knife?
An aircraft in flight is free to rotate in three dimensions, described using these three principal axes.
What are yaw, pitch, and roll?
In Pixar’s Cars, the winner of the Piston Cup.
Who is Chick Hicks?
Arnold Schwarzenegger famously delivers the line "Hasta la vista, baby” in this 1991 Box Office hit.
What is Terminator 2: Judgment Day?
Inspired by the natural tendency of burdock seeds to cling to woolen materials, George de Mestral founded this company in 1957, the original manufacturer of hook-and-loop fasteners.
What is Velcro?
These free-swimming marine animals with trailing tentacles.
What are jellyfish?
While this road surfacing material is outdated and no longer common in most countries, the word is still used to refer to generic paved areas at airports, although these areas are often made of concrete.
What is tarmac?
In terms of area, this is the largest U.S. State.
What is Alaska?
In the Star Wars series, this device affixed to a droid in order to limit its functions and enforce its obedience.
What is a restraining bolt?
This thick, dark syrup principally obtained from the refining of sugarcane or sugar beet juice into sugar.
What is molasses?
A common loose-fill packaging and cushioning material used to prevent damage to fragile objects during shipping.
What are packing peanuts?
An aircraft's main body section, holding crew, passengers, or cargo.
What is the fuselage?
In Norse cosmology, this is the name of the immense and central sacred tree. Around it exists all else, including the Nine Worlds.
What is Yggdrasil?
This film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2008.
What is WALL-E?
This American multinational conglomerate produces over 60,000 products under several brands, including Scotch tape, Scotch-Brite, Post-it, and Command.
What is 3M?
This candy consists of caramelized sugar and a legume served as flat broken pieces.
What is peanut brittle?
This condition caused by low levels of oxygen can lead to dizziness and disorientation, posing extreme danger to pilots operating aircraft at high altitudes.
What is hypoxia?
This Middle English and Old French term meaning “evenly divided game” was originally used in chess and other games to denote a problem, or a position in which the chances of winning or losing were evenly balanced, hence “a dangerous situation”
What is jeopardy?
In Valve’s Portal franchise, GLaDOS is an acronym for this.
What is Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System?
A workable paste composed of cement and sand which hardens to bind building blocks such as stones, bricks, and concrete masonry units.
What is mortar?
This royal insect with large wings, notable for its instinctive annual southward migration.
What is a monarch butterfly?