Question: True or false: Some airport signs are built to withstand the equivalent of an F5 tornado.
Category: Trivia Testers
Trivia Teaser – Unseating Misconceptions
Question: True or False: There has actually been a scientific study done to disprove the theory that a pilot flies by the seat of his (or her) pants.
Trivia Teaser – The Lure of the Straight And Narrow
Question: You experience an engine failure at a fairly charitable altitude (say 4500 feet) during a cross-country flight. There aren't any airports within gliding range, but you immediately see a perfectly straight clearing in the heavily wooded area over which you are flying (which fortunately, appears to be relatively flat) You notice that it continues off into the middle distance, at which point it abruptly changes direction by about 25 degrees and continues again in another long, straight line. Why might you not want to even think about landing there?
Trivia Teaser – That little bend in the road, down thar
Question: Why is it that when you are flying over the Midwest, you'll see an endless rectangular array of roads neatly arranged in a grid, but every so often, one of the north-south roads will jog just a bit eastward or westward before resuming its northerly (or southerly) course?
Trivia Teaser: Sticking Points
Question: True or false: The viscosity (or 'stickiness') of a gas actually increases with increasing temperature (unlike a liquid). So even though it becomes less dense when warmed, and its molecules move further apart and more quickly, a gas becomes, in a way, thicker at the same time that it gets thinner.
Trivia Teaser: Thin Is In
Question: The advantage of a high aspect ratio wing was first recognized in?
Trivia Teaser: Interesting Footnotes
Question: The year of the first documented sustained flight of a heavier-than-air powered flying machine was:?
Trivia Teaser: Will You Still Need Me; Will You Still Feed Me…When I’m Sixty-four?
Question: True or False: Airline pilots may not pilot an airliner in the United States once they have passed their sixtieth birthday.
Trivia Teaser: The First Airport
Question: The world's first fixed location devoted to the landing and departure of flying machines that was referred to in the way we most often do now, that is by the term 'airport' was?
Trivia Teaser: Will the Real Highest Mountain Please Stand Up
Question: The highest mountain peak on Earth, in reality, is?