Pilot Quiz—Where and When

The first three questions about weather will be easy for pilots to answer, so to make this quiz a bit more challenging the next questions delve into your knowledge of where and when in aviation.

1. What effect does high humidity have on your takeoff roll?

a. It will be longer
b. It will be shorter
c. No effect

2. What percentage of oxygen needed by the human body is in the atmosphere at 18,000 feet?

a. 72 percent
b. 50 percent
c. 39 percent

3. On warm days when approaching to land over rocky terrain, ploughed fields, paved roads, what effect do air currents have?

a. Tendency to overshoot normal approach
b. Tendency to undershoot normal approach
c. No effect

4. Where and when was the world’s first commercial flight made?

a. Washington to Philadelphia—1910
b. Dayton to Columbus—1909
c. St. Petersburg to Tampa—1914

5. Where and when was first balloon flight made?

a. France—1783
b. Italy—1801
c. United States—1870

6. Where and when was first parachute drop made?

a. Paris—1797
b. London—1812
c. Australia—1908

7. Where and when was first multi-engine aircraft built?

a. France—1909
b. Russia—1913
c. United States—1915

8. Where and when was the first flight on instruments—takeoff to successful landing—completely on instruments?

a. Los Angeles—1926
b. Washington, D.C.—1928
c. Long Island, N.Y.—1929

9. Where and when was first successful helicopter flight made?

a. German—1937
b. United States—1940
c. Russia—1941

10. Where and when was first supersonic flight made?

a. Luke Air Force Base, Arizona—1945
b. Muroc Air Force Base, California—1947
c. Randolph Air Force Base, Texas—1952

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