When did the Smithsonian Institution first begin collecting flight-related articles? How many active air traffic controllers in the…
Why would any predictions of sunrise and sunset times for your local area, whether obtained from your new…
Pilots rightfully have something of a vested interest in that benchmark of assessing their visual acuity: namely, the…
When you hear the word "flak" you may think of a famous female singer named Roberta, bulletproof outerwear…
True or false: When the outside temperature is low, closing the cowl flaps prior to, during, or just…
If an IFR aircraft which precedes you into the same airspace ceases to communicate with ATC for whatever…
As you are about to flare for landing, just when you reduce propeller rpm, you feel a slight…
If you knew only your true airspeed and your angle of drift from the wind, is it possible…
What was the origin of the now universally applied unit of measuring speed, the knot, in determinations both…
The FAA requires many aircraft to display N-numbers that are a foot high. Which of the following are…
A pilot who desires to retain instrument currency may use a first Personal Computer Aviation Training Device (PCATD)…
True or false: a blind person has successfully piloted an aircraft (an airplane) through takeoff, cruise flight, and…
Avgas is colored by the use of a dye to indicate its octane and lead level. True or…
On approach to landing at one of several airports in the Detroit metropolitan area, you hear ATIS Information…
The number of hours of flight instruction needed for a flight review, regardless of whether it is through…
True or False: A private pilot with an airplane, single-engine land rating can always be guaranteed to receive…
In July 2001, 13-year old Cody Clawson was hiking with his Boy Scout troop in Yellowstone National Park,…
From the North Pole, one can only go southward. Not being the trusting type, rather than following the…
The absolutely and undeniably first woman pilot in the whole world was...
Two pilots walk into the waiting room of an Aviation Medical Examiner to renew the medical certificates that…
After an aircraft experiencing an emergency, what four types of aircraft or situations come next, on the pecking…
While en route at 4000 feet, ATC issues you the following advisory: "Flock of small birds, twelve o'clock,…
An airplane with leaky fuel caps is sitting out in the rain. How long might it take each…
Of the following early airmail pilots, who doesn't belong? Charles Lindbergh, Elrey Jeppesen, Leonard Brooke Hyde-Pearson, or George…
Just as the greater relative proportion of one substance introduced into another can improve the effectiveness of a…
Who was the first person to propose the use of aircraft in the national interest?
Birds, like pilots, don't always have a tailwind. As a matter of fact, they have the same problems…
What's the safest airline in the world?
What propeller-driven aircraft had a fuselage that was nearly as tall as it was long?
When traveling at the speed of sound at sea level (assuming we use a "standard" atmosphere at 15…
You're descending at a relatively high speed in calm air, and since there was no forecast for nor…
For what clever but ill-fated design was General George Armstrong Custer's great grand-nephew best known?
What IFR aircraft under ATC guidance in IMC (instrument meteorological conditions) may suddenly find that their services have…
The first aerial combat between two aircraft took place...
The first person to use an airplane for transportation on a regular basis (in connection with a non-aviation…
If you hear a repeating "dit-dah-dah-dit" (the letter "P" in Morse code) on 121.5 MHz, what kind of…
To the nearest 100 feet, estimate the takeoff distance into a 13 knot headwind for an airplane with…
Galileo notwithstanding, with raindrops, the bigger they are, the faster they fall. (For objects of that size, the…
Which aircraft was the first to have variable-sweep wings?
When was the first practical "black box" required aboard airliners?
What fighter airplane had an "F" type designator, but yet carries no guns?
When did our primary airspeed indications (that is, those used by general aviation) go from reading in miles…
The greatest number of engines used on any production airplane was...
The first regular in-flight motion pictures made their appearance in...
The lowest barometric pressure ever recorded in the United States was 26.35 inches. In which state was it…
The first airplane to land aboard an aircraft carrier under jet power was...
Man, my airplane is fast, boasts a pilot. "I was getting 150 knots true groundspeed."
There was an aircraft that, while it may not have had the noise output of the Valkyrie supersonic…