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Trivia Testers : How Old Is the Attic?

When did the Smithsonian Institution first begin collecting flight-related articles? How many active air traffic controllers in the…

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Trivia Testers : Tides

Why would any predictions of sunrise and sunset times for your local area, whether obtained from your new…

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Trivia Testers : The Letter E

Pilots rightfully have something of a vested interest in that benchmark of assessing their visual acuity: namely, the…

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Trivia Testers : Joe Cool

When you hear the word "flak" you may think of a famous female singer named Roberta, bulletproof outerwear…

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Trivia Testers : They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?

True or false: When the outside temperature is low, closing the cowl flaps prior to, during, or just…

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Trivia Testers : Carrying the Torch

If an IFR aircraft which precedes you into the same airspace ceases to communicate with ATC for whatever…

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Trivia Testers : The First Aeronautical Charts, Part II

As you are about to flare for landing, just when you reduce propeller rpm, you feel a slight…

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Trivia Testers : The First Aeronautical Charts

If you knew only your true airspeed and your angle of drift from the wind, is it possible…

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Trivia Testers : An E-Ticket Ride

What was the origin of the now universally applied unit of measuring speed, the knot, in determinations both…

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Trivia Testers : Polly Want a Cracker?

The FAA requires many aircraft to display N-numbers that are a foot high. Which of the following are…

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Trivia Testers : Coming or Going?

A pilot who desires to retain instrument currency may use a first Personal Computer Aviation Training Device (PCATD)…

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Trivia Testers : Flying Blind

True or false: a blind person has successfully piloted an aircraft (an airplane) through takeoff, cruise flight, and…

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Trivia Testers : Big Words

Avgas is colored by the use of a dye to indicate its octane and lead level. True or…

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Trivia Testers : This Just In

On approach to landing at one of several airports in the Detroit metropolitan area, you hear ATIS Information…

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Trivia Testers Off The Grid

The number of hours of flight instruction needed for a flight review, regardless of whether it is through…

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Trivia Testers : Are Two I’s Better Than One?

True or False: A private pilot with an airplane, single-engine land rating can always be guaranteed to receive…

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Trivia Testers : Not the First

In July 2001, 13-year old Cody Clawson was hiking with his Boy Scout troop in Yellowstone National Park,…

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Trivia Testers : Down and Around

From the North Pole, one can only go southward. Not being the trusting type, rather than following the…

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Trivia Testers : Sixteen Candles

The absolutely and undeniably first woman pilot in the whole world was...

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Trivia Testers : Pride Goeth Before a Fall

Two pilots walk into the waiting room of an Aviation Medical Examiner to renew the medical certificates that…

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Trivia Testers : Status Symbols

After an aircraft experiencing an emergency, what four types of aircraft or situations come next, on the pecking…

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Trivia Testers : We have clearance, Clarence!

While en route at 4000 feet, ATC issues you the following advisory: "Flock of small birds, twelve o'clock,…

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Trivia Testers : Splitting Hairs

An airplane with leaky fuel caps is sitting out in the rain. How long might it take each…

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Trivia Testers : Parched

Of the following early airmail pilots, who doesn't belong? Charles Lindbergh, Elrey Jeppesen, Leonard Brooke Hyde-Pearson, or George…

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Trivia Testers : Strength in Numbers

Just as the greater relative proportion of one substance introduced into another can improve the effectiveness of a…

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Trivia Testers : Founding Fathers

Who was the first person to propose the use of aircraft in the national interest?

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Trivia Testers : Airfoils

Birds, like pilots, don't always have a tailwind. As a matter of fact, they have the same problems…

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Trivia Testers : Falling Kangaroos

What's the safest airline in the world?

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Trivia Testers : Stubby

What propeller-driven aircraft had a fuselage that was nearly as tall as it was long?

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Trivia Testers : Too Much of a Good Thing

When traveling at the speed of sound at sea level (assuming we use a "standard" atmosphere at 15…

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Trivia Testers : Let It Snow

You're descending at a relatively high speed in calm air, and since there was no forecast for nor…

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Trivia Testers : The Magneto Marh

For what clever but ill-fated design was General George Armstrong Custer's great grand-nephew best known?

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Trivia Testers : Slightly Higher in Bolivia

What IFR aircraft under ATC guidance in IMC (instrument meteorological conditions) may suddenly find that their services have…

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Trivia Testers : Unfriendly Skies

The first aerial combat between two aircraft took place...

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Trivia Testers : Wilbur, Come Here

The first person to use an airplane for transportation on a regular basis (in connection with a non-aviation…

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Trivia Testers : Good News, Bad News

If you hear a repeating "dit-dah-dah-dit" (the letter "P" in Morse code) on 121.5 MHz, what kind of…

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Trivia Testers : Curious Names of Remarkable People

To the nearest 100 feet, estimate the takeoff distance into a 13 knot headwind for an airplane with…

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Trivia Testers : Where the Force Started

Galileo notwithstanding, with raindrops, the bigger they are, the faster they fall. (For objects of that size, the…

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Trivia Testers : Variable Sweepback

Which aircraft was the first to have variable-sweep wings?

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Trivia Testers : The First Controllable Rotorcraft

When was the first practical "black box" required aboard airliners?

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Trivia Testers : Why Two?

What fighter airplane had an "F" type designator, but yet carries no guns?

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Trivia Testers : All In Knots

When did our primary airspeed indications (that is, those used by general aviation) go from reading in miles…

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Trivia Testers : Talk About a Multi-Engine Rating

The greatest number of engines used on any production airplane was...

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Trivia Testers : Skin and Bones

The first regular in-flight motion pictures made their appearance in...

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Trivia Testers : 4F

The lowest barometric pressure ever recorded in the United States was 26.35 inches. In which state was it…

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Trivia Testers : One Heck of a Pinata

The first airplane to land aboard an aircraft carrier under jet power was...

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Trivia Testers: On Speed

Man, my airplane is fast, boasts a pilot. "I was getting 150 knots true groundspeed."

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Trivia Testers : Beyond the Third Degree

There was an aircraft that, while it may not have had the noise output of the Valkyrie supersonic…

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