Airplanes

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1. Which Formula One driver died when his Piper Aztec airplane crashed over a Golf Course in 1975?
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2. What was the call sign of Maverick’s second in the movie Top Gun?
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3. In what city would you be in if you landed at Gatwick Airport?
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4. Traffic between what two cities makes it the busiest international airline route in the world?
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5. In 1930 who was the first woman to fly from England to Australia?
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6. What was the term given to the nightly German bombings of London during World War II?
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7. Which word is used over the radio by both aircraft and ships to indicate distress?
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8. What event prompted Don McLean to sing about The day the music died in the song American Pie?
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9. Who made the first solo flight around the world in 1933?
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10. Which Hollywood star flys his own Boeing 707, a former Qantas plane?
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11. What novel opens with the line: There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and Id been treated by at least six of them?
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12. What TV program, another spin-off of Cheers, was centred around a one plane commuter service?
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13. What was the name of the naval elite combat flight school, in San Diego, which was used in the movie Top Gun?
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14. Which airline does Dustin Hoffmans character in the movie Rainman say is the worlds safest?
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15. Who does the comic stip character Snoopy pretent to dog-fight, in his pilots had and scalf, perched on top of his doghouse?
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16. In which American city is OHare Airport, the worlds busiest airport with over 72 million passengers each year?
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17. Name the town in Scotland where a terrorist bomb exploded on a Pan-Am aircraft in 1988, killing 270 people, including towns people.
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18. Where did five United States torpedo bombers disappear on December 5, 1945, on a routine training flight in good conditions, never to be seen again?
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19. What Australian food was first marketed in 1927 by Bert Appleroth?
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20. What Australian band named themselves after a song on Paul McCartneys solo 1973 album Band on the Run?
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21. Who was killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa along with Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper?
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22. Although referred to as the black box, most flight data recorders in modern aircraft are what colour?
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23. What do you call the central portion of an airplane which carries the passengers, the cockpit and crew, and the cargo?
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24. What does a planes altimeter measure?
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25. Who became the first pilot to fly faster than the speed of sound?
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26. Which band released the album Unknown Pleasures?
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27. What was the name of Charles Kingsford-Smiths aeroplane that made the first trans-Pacific flight in 1928?
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28. In 1975, what did Elvis name his renovated Convair jet?
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29. What city and country would you be in if you landed at Orly Airport?
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30. Rather than Aeroplane, what do Dick Smith Foods call their jelly crystal range?
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31. What Japanese word for suicide attack literally means divine wind?
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32. What did Dr David Warren of the Aeronautical Research Laboratories in Melbourne Australia invent in 1953 to assist crash investigators?
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33. Who invented the first manned and gas powered airplane in 1903?
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34. In the TV series MASH, who was the only regular cast member to die during the series when the plane carrying him home crashed?
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35. What actor played Iceman in the movie Top Gun?
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36. What celebrity launched the Jetstar Airline on a float in a parade?
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37. In what country was Kai Tak International Airport until it was closed down in 1998?
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38. What city would you be in if you landed at J F Kennedy Airport?
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39. What country would you be in if you landed at Freeport International Airport?
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40. What country would you be in if you landed at Jackson Field Airport?
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41. From what city did the first Boeing 707 make its maiden flight in 1954?
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42. Which airlines slogan is A great way to fly?
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43. Which companys catch phrase is Keeping the air fair?
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44. KLM is the national airline for what European country?
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45. What do you call the sound made when an aeroplane travels faster than the speed of sound?
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46. In which century did the Wright Brothers achieve their first flight?
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47. Between what two towns did Qantas begin flying in 1922?
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48. How many enemy aircraft must a fighter pilot shoot down before he can be called an ‘Ace’?
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49. What rocker released an album in 1981 with her band ‘the Blackhearts’ entitled ‘I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll’?
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50. What was the first supersonic commercial plane ever built?
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