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Last Week's Question: The Olympic games were started by the ancient Greeks to honor which god?  ANSWER: Zeus

Last Week's Question: Where is Boeing’s Corporate Headquarters located? ANSWER: Chicago

Last Week's Question: Where is Boeing’s main civil airliner production facility? ANSWER: Seattle, Washington

Last Week's Question: What is the largest Airline in the World?  ANSWER: American Airlines

Last Week's Question:  New Year's Trivia: The first New Year’s Eve ball drop in Times Square happened in? ANSWER: 1907

Last Week's Question: Christmas Trivia: Which country did the gingerbread house come from?  ANSWER: Germany

Last Week's Question:  In Tchaikovsky's ballet "The Nutcracker", who is the nutcracker's main enemy?  ANSWER: The King of the mice.

Last Week's Question: What year were the Dirty Dozen Maintenance Posters Invented? ANSWER:  The posters were invented in 1993 as a follow-up to the Human Performance in Maintenance Workshop.   The posters were updated to full color and an actual aviation accident picture was added in 2009.   If you were interested in obtaining a set of the "new" posters, please click here. 

Last Week's Question: What airlines were not involved in any crashes, fatality-free or otherwise in the period 1988-98?   ANSWER:  Air New Zealand and QANTAS

QANTAS never had any fatal crashes, only one fatality-free crash in the 1950s. Air New Zealand had one crash during a training flight in 1966 involving a small number of fatalities, and one major crash later. This was the world's fourth worst aviation accident, in November 1979, where a sightseeing DC10 crashed into Mt Erebus in Antarctica during whiteout conditions. United has had its fair share of crashes during this period but it is a major airline with extensive operations.

Last Week's Question: What is the fastest Jet aircraft in the world?  ANSWER: SR-71 Blackbird 2,293 mph world speed record. The fastest jet aircraft in the world.

Last Week's Question: This strange aircraft pioneered the nose hump made famous by the 747 almost a decade earlier. Only 21 examples were produced and they were actually modifications of a standard 4 engine Douglas transport.

Fairchild C-119
Bristol 170
ATL-98 Carvair
Douglas C-124 Globemaster

ANSWER: ATL-98 Carvair - These were built to be used as car ferries. Raising the cockpit over the main fuselage allowed cars to be driven on and off the aircraft easily.

Last Week's Question: What is Vno?   ANSWER: Maximum Structural Cruising Speed

Last Week's Question: What is an SST? ANSWER: supersonic transport - The Aerospatiale-BAC Concorde was not the only SST to go into commercial service. Aeroflot operated some Tupolev TU-144's for a total of 102 flights before withdrawing them from service in 1978 due to engine problems and high operating costs. Boeing Aircraft of the US proposed their own SST, the model 2707, but it never went into production.

Last Week's Question: What is the smallest Jet Airplane?  ANSWER: Smallest Jet Aircraft: The home-built Bede BD-5J Microjet owned by Juan Jimenez of San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA, weighs 162 kg (358 lb), is 3.7 m (12 ft) long, has a 5.7 m (17 ft) wingspan, and can fly at 483 km/h (300 mph).

Last Week's Question: What was the full name of the Canadian airline with the initials "EPA"?  ANSWER: Eastern Provincial Airlines

Last Week's Question: What cost $3.00 for 1, $6.00 for 12 and $9.00 for 100?  ANSWER:  Numbers for your house

Last Week's Question: What year and where was the 'black box' flight recorder invented? ANSWER: Australia. by David Warren of the Aeronautical Research Laboratories in 1958

Last Week's Question: The international airport in Chicago, USA is named in Honour of which US flying ace? ANSWER: Edward O'Hare

Last Week's Question: What year was the first recorded aircraft hijack in?  ANSWER: The first recorded aircraft hijack was on February 21, 1931, in Arequipa, Peru. Byron Rickards flying a Ford Tri-motor was approached on the ground by armed revolutionaries. He refused to fly them anywhere and after a ten day stand-off Rickards was informed that the revolution was successful and he could go in return for giving one of their members a lift to Lima.

Last Week's Question: What was the Wright Brothers aircraft named?    ANSWER: Flyer

Last Week's Question: In what year did the world's first regular airplane passenger service begin?    ANSWER: 1910 - On June 22, 1910 the first regular passenger-carryinging airship service began. On this day the firm of Delag operated an inter-urban (city to city) service in Germany. In 1914 the St. Petersburg-Tampa (Florida) Airboat Line operated in the United States.

Last Week's Question: Why do they turn the lights out on takeoff and landing?  ANSWER: Believe it or not, they do this so your eyes will adjust to lower levels of light. If there's an accident and they have to deploy the emergency slides, studies have shown that you'll be able to see better and thus be able to evacuate more quickly and safely.

Last Week's Question: Which was not a requirement for the first female flight attendants in 1930?
A: Must weigh no more than 115 pounds
B: Must be nurses
C: Must be able to hold their breath for at least 60 seconds
D: Must be unmarried
ANSWER: "C"

Last Week's Question: What type of business did Orville and Wilbur Wright operate when they made the world's first successful piloted airplane flights in 1903?  ANSWER: Bicycle manufacturing

Last Week's Question: These last recorded words of what famous aviator were uttered as he signed an autograph and climbed into his cockpit - "What's the hurry? Are you afraid I won't come back?"  ANSWER: Manfred von Richthofen. 'The Red Baron'

Last Week's Question: What is the largest airport in the United States - figured on area? ANSWER: The nation's largest airport by area - is almost twice as big as the combined campuses of all of the universities in the Big 12 Conference - and it covers 34,000 acres and is called:  Denver International Airport.

Last Week's Question: Which airline started the first around the world passenger service in 1958?  ANSWER: Qantas

Last Week's Question: What was the cause of Air Ontario's F28-1000 Fokker Fellowship crash during takeoff on March 10 1989, at Dryden Airport, Ontario, Canada, with most on board surviving? ANSWER:  The official cause was the pilot attempted to take off with snow on the wings, however; that was the outcome and not the cause.   The cause is found on whatever made him decide to attempt the take off in the first place.  Using the Dirty Dozen: LACK OF RESOURCES - no air available to re-start the engines if he shut them down to deice -  PRESSURE (Self), LACK OF COMMUNICATION - The APU could have been used to restart the engines even though it had an "Unserviceable" tag on it, NORMS - The company pilots would often take off with snow on the wings and look to determine if it had blown off by a certain speed, this was not possible with the Fokker's swept wing, STRESS - the desire to get home (get home idious), COMPANY CULTURE - All of these were contributing factors and the cause of the pilot making the decision he did.   The pilot died and 23 others died.

Last Week's Question (April 3): Little Ryan was bragging about his school's hockey team.  "In the last game we played, we managed to win without one man getting a goal!"  Since the final score was 3 to 1, how was this possible? ANSWER: It was a girl's hockey team

Last Week's Question (Mar 27): When the day after tomorrow is yesterday, today will be as far from Wednesday as today was from Wednesday when the day before yesterday was tomorrow.   What is the day after this day? ANSWER: Thursday

Last Week's Question (Mar 20): How many of each species did Moses take onto the ark with him? ANSWER: None, it was Noah's ark.

Last Week's Question (Mar 13): Duncan Drival hailed a cab.  While being driven to his destination, he started chattering non-stop to the driver.  The cabbie realized that Duncan would not shut up, so he resorted to an old cab driver's trick.  He looked into his rear view mirror and said, "I'm sorry mister, I can't hear a word you're saying.  My hearing aid broke down this morning.  I'm quite deaf even when it's working, but believe me, when it's not working, I'm totally deaf".   At his destination, Duncan paid the fare and got out.  A few moments later, Duncan realized the cab driver had lied to him about his hearing problem.   How did Duncan know the driver was lying?   ANSWER:  Duncan Drival must have told the driver his destination.   Had the driver been deaf, he would not have known where to take him.

Last Week's Question (Mar 6): What is the third hand on a watch or clock called?   ANSWER:  The Second Hand.

Last Week's Question (Feb 27): Captain Frank and Professor Quantum played chess.   They played seven games, each won the same number of games, and there weren't any draws or stalemates.  How could this have happened? ANSWER:  They weren't playing each other.

Last Week's Question (Feb 13): Mr. & Mrs. Payload were walking home from the shopping mall with their purchases when Mr. Payload began to complain that his load was too heavy.  Mrs. Payload turned to her husband and said, I don't know what you're complaining about because if you gave me one of your parcels, I would have twice as many as you, and if I gave you just one of mine, we would have equal loads.   How many parcels were each carrying? ANSWER:  Mrs. Payload was carrying seven parcels and Mr. Payload was carrying five.

Last Week's Question (Feb 6): There are two airplanes heading straight toward each other.   One plane is traveling at 15 kilometers per minute, and the other is travelling at 10 kilometers per minute.   Assuming that the planes are exactly 1000 kilometers apart, what distance will be between them one minute before they meet?ANSWER:  25 Kilometers. Since they are travelling at a combined speed of 25 kilometers per minute toward each other, they will be 25 kilometers apart one minute before they meet.

Last Week's Question (Jan 30): It is a hot summer day and Shadow is summoned to a field located several kilometers from the city centre.   Shadow surveys the scene.   A frozen corpse lies in the freshly tilled field and strangely, there no footprints anywhere around the body.   The closest marks are tire tracks from a tractor more than 50 meters away.  A farmer, who had been working in the field all day, said he had not seen anyone or anything unusual.   How did the person die and turn up frozen in an open field? ANSWER:  The Person was a stowaway hidden in the landing gear of a jumbo jet.   He died of hypothermia and froze in the stratosphere.  When the plane's landing gear opened, the corpse fell out and landed in the open field.

Last Week's Question (Jan 23): Two cars meandered along the winding country road and came to an abrupt stop at the park's gate.   Seven men got out of the two cars and proceeded along a footpath when it began to rain.  Six of the men began to walk faster to get out of the rain but the seventh man couldn't be bothered.  Ironically it was the seventh man who remained dry and the other six got soaked.  Since all seven men arrived at their destination together and had no umbrellas, how was this possible?  ANSWER:  The six men were carrying the seventh man in a coffin.

Last Week's Question (Dec. 31): Mr. & Mrs. Plum have six daughters and each daughter has one brother.  How many people are in the Plum family?
ANSWER: There are nine Plums in the family.   Since each daughter shares the same brother, there are six girls, one boy and Mr. and Mrs. Plum.

Last Week's Question (Dec. 24):Shadow and his men searched the frozen tundra for escaped convict Sid Shady.  Just as they were about to give up, one of Shadow's men spotted a body.  Shady was found lying dead in the snow.  There were no tracks leading to or from the body.   The cause of death was partially due to the unopened pack on his back.  Shady did not die of thirst, hunger or cold.  What was in Shady's pack that lead to his death?
ANSWER: An unopened parachute.  Shady's death was caused by the impact with the ground.

Last Week's Question (Dec. 19): Captain Frank was out for a walk when it started to rain.  He did not have an umbrella and he wasn't wearing a hat.  His clothes were soaked, yet not a hair on his head got wet.  How could this happen?  
ANSWER: He was bald.
 
Last Week's Question (Dec. 5): In Hawaii, if you drop a steel ball weighing five pounds from a height of 45 inches, will it fall more rapidly through water at 20 degrees Fahrenheit or water at 40 degrees Fahrenheit?  Or will it make a difference??   
ANSWER: 40° Fahrenheit.  At 20° the water would be ice.