How Fly Is Your Knowledge? Take the Airplane Trivia Test!
1.
How many engines are there on a B-52 airplane?
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Eight
2.
What airline was suspended for irresponsible workmanship after a crash in the Florida Everglades?
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Valujet
3.
Which commercial airline offered regular jet service from New York to Paris in October 1958?
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Pan American World Airways
4.
What airplane is based around the GAU-8 30mm Gatling Gun?
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Fairchild A/Oa-10 Thunderbolt II
5.
Because of its handling characteristics, the F-117 Nighthawk was nicknamed what?
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The Woblin' Goblin
6.
What is the official name of the F-22?
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Raptor
7.
Which type of aircraft was adopted by the U.S. Navy Blue Angels in 1986?
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F/A-18 Hornet
8.
What WWII bomber was made entirely of wood, and fast enough to outrun most enemy fighters?
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Mosquito
9.
What is the English translation of the Japanese plane built specifically for WWII kamikaze attacks?
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Cherry Blossom
10.
Admiral Byrd used this aircraft in a 1925 National Geographic Expedition to the Artic?
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Loening Amphibian
11.
The Airforce T-43 airborne navigator-trainer is a modified version of what commercial aircraft?
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Boeing 737
12.
What car company is the sister company of the manufacturer of the Dornier 328 aircraft?
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Mercedes-Benz
13.
What variation of the F-15 is ground attack capable?
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F-15 E
14.
What well known acronym is used by pilots prior to take off?
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Cigar
15.
For great distances over the globe, airplanes should fly this instead of a Rhumb Line?
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Great Circle
16.
What does "NDB", which airplanes occasionally use, stand for?
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Non-Directional Beacon
17.
Which type of airspace is designated by the FAA to be "uncontrolled airspace"?
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Class G
18.
What is the SR-71's cruising altitude?
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80,000 Feet
19.
What is the only aircraft in the active Air Force inventory not to be used in Desert Storm?
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B-1B Lancer
20.
Which of these airplanes has three engines?
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Boeing 727
21.
Which of these aircraft was NOT designed by Kelly Johnson?
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F-111 Aardvark
22.
Who manufactures the engine in an AV8B (Harrier Jump Jet)?
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Rolls Royce
23.
Which of the following was an advertisement slogan for the 1957 Chevrolet?
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Sweet, Smooth, And Sassy
24.
Which airplane mounts the largest airborne gun?
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Ac-130 Spectre
25.
Who makes the engines for the F-22?
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Pratt And Whitney
26.
What type of airplane did Richard Bong fly to become the highest scoring ace of WWII?
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P38 Lightning
27.
What plane was made for SAC, but was cancelled after a mid-air collision in 1966?
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North American Xb-70
28.
What was the most numerous fighter used by the Royal Air Force during the battle of Britain?
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Hurricane
29.
Which was the first version of the Boeing 737 to be put into production?
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Boeing 737-100
30.
The 1000th Boeing 747 was delivered new to what airline?
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Singapore Airlines
31.
What was the first Allied aircraft of WWI to carry twin machine-guns firing through the propeller?
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Sopwith Camel
32.
What type of aircraft did Eddie Rickenbacker's Hat in the Ring squadron primarily use during WWI?
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Spad XIII
33.
What pilot is officially credited with shooting down the Red Baron, although there are also claims to the kill by Australian ground fire crews?
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Capt. Roy Brown
34.
Which of the following aircrafts of WWII was considered a dedicated night-fighter?
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P-61 Black Widow
35.
Which airplane did Scandinavian airline SAS first operate in 2001?
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Airbus A340
36.
Which pilot was the first person to cross the English Channel in an airplane?
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Louis Bleriot
37.
What name did Lesley Nielson tell Robert Hays not to call him in the movie spoof "Airplane"?
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Shirley
38.
What is the purpose of an airfoil on an airplane?
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Produce Lift
39.
Which aeronautical term is a pilot or crew of an aircraft?
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Aviator
40.
Which number was the approximate number of active single engine aircraft in the USA in 2006?
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About 125,000
41.
How many of the 3,970 B-29 Superfortress built by the end of World War II were built by Boeing?
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2766
42.
What aircraft was known as the "Thud"?
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F-105
43.
Which airline was the first to introduce the Boeing 747 Megatop?
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Singapore Airlines
44.
What was the name of the airplane present at the dropping of BOTH atomic bombs on Japan?
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Straight Flush
45.
Airline pilots are required by FAA regulation to retire at age 60, no matter how good their health. When did this practice begin?
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1960
46.
What airline was formed from the merger of North Central Airlines, Southern Airways, and Hughes Airwest?
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Republic Airlines
47.
What was the largest aircraft carrier in WWII?
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Shinano
48.
What was the designation of the attack bomber version of the P-51?
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A-36 Apache
49.
Which company made the first version of the Cub?
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Taylorcraft
50.
How many Concorde SST airplanes were built?
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Twenty
51.
What is the name for the Pressurized Twin Cessna 414?
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Chancellor
52.
What is the Piper ID number for the Piper Warrior?
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Pa-28-151
53.
What was the first U.S. airline to carry more than 100 million passengers in one year?
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Delta Air Lines
54.
What type of aircraft does QANTAS, Australia's airline, not operate?
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Boeing 757
55.
In what year was the last Boeing 727-200 produced?
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1984
56.
To what airline was the first Boeing 737-800 delivered to?
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Hapag Lloyd
57.
What type of WWI biplane is credited with being the first aircraft to do sky writing?
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Se 5a
58.
What type of aircraft performed the brunt of the wild weasel missions during the Vietnam War?
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Thunderchief
59.
What is the first aircraft in history with a synchronized machine-gun, capable of firing safely through a propeller?
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Fokker Eindecker
60.
What type of plane was George Barker flying when he single-handedly took on over 70 German aircraft, survived, and received the Victoria Cross?
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Sopwith Snipe
61.
What was the carrier-based fighter the U.S. Navy first used at the onset of WWII?
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Wildcat
62.
What aircraft from Sopwith was used heavily for coastal patrol?
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Triplane
63.
What type of plane did Belgium's leading ace of WWI, Willy Coppens, fly?
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Hanriot
64.
What was the first commercial passenger plane that was capable of flying profitably?
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DC-3
65.
How many gallons of fuel does a Boeing 747 airliner hold?
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57,285 Gallons
66.
Which of these debuted as the largest airplane in the world?
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Airbus 380
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