AIRLINER TRIVIA QUIZ - Amazing facts about the Airline Industry from the 1930s to the Jet Age!
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Back to the school bench....
That Avro Jetliner is, was, a beautiful machine and in those colours! 😍🥰😎
So many airlines that's no longer with us....🥺😥
Eddie Rickenbacker, when he was CEO of Eastern Airlines in the 1950s, made a comment about Capital Airlines making their DC-4s look like DC-6s by painting the squares around the oval windows. He said, "next thing you know they'll be painting people on the windows to make it look like they're carrying passengers."
Geez, but Rick was a character! CR Smith of American was his arch-nemesis in humor, though. There is a story about an Airline Transport Association meeting attended by both, where The Captain was grousing about the fact that the president of ATA got to fly free on the airlines. "Don't worry, Eddie" CR Smith told him. "He'll only try Eastern once!"
Great story, thanks!
Both of my parents worked at Eastern with Capt Eddie. They loved him
I had not heard the term MEATBALL in a long time. Did not know about the alcohol burners in the Connies.
Cool video. IIRC, NASA used modified Gulfstream aircraft to train STS pilots with the main gear down during the approach phase. If you were tagged for HAFB SOF duty, you could see them training over at White Sands Space Harbor. Occasionally, when the pattern was empty, they’d shoot a shuttle approach to Rwy 16 then proceed down the VFR corridor back to ELP.
A most enjoyable quiz and fun way to learn more aviation facts. Very nice photos too. Can you imagine the scalps that would be had if even the idea was suggested of a "men only" flight on an airliner today? Eek! Always a pleasure to see the Disneyland TWA Moon Rocket too. Thanks for your work on this one Mike.
Just be careful in what you call them. Too many unknowns in them pants today.
Looking at the TWA "Moon Rocket" and it's landing gear, its mind-blowing to see the SpaceX booster rockets using that same configuration in real life 60 years later.
Fascinating, realy enjoy these
The slide at 16:36 shows Hillman Husky car and a VW Combi. There’s a Boeing 707 in there too. Great Quiz. Thank you Mike.
Awesome pic at 10:28! What a gracious and civilized way to fly. And by heaven, a lounge with cocktails!
Having lived within walking distance of LAX as a kid and RNO as an adult, this episode inspired nostalgia more than filling knowledge gaps.
Example no.11. For the short time I lived in OC, it was my Dad's idea of cheap family entertainment to get dinner at Carl's Jr, drive to the Disneyland parking lot and watch the L.A. Airways S61-L land and leave then stay for the fireworks. In '69 I was at an AT&T Disney company night (the extra tickets went to the USO) and I was struck by the contrast of a Marine in his 19th Century inspired Dress Blues in the "waiting room" of the Trip to the Moon.
#7 Hahaha...so 'Mad Men'. Love it.
Always interesting - thanks Mike!
Love it, but you gotta add about the HS Trident. First, that (as far as I know) its the only plane that started production with three engines, and ended production with four engines, and, the only airliner in which the nose gear is both off-center and retracts sideways!
Good point!
I got five wrong. My father trained pilots during WWII and won a medal from King George VI for his efforts. He worked for Canadian Pacific Airline (Repairs) in Calgary and they had the RCAF maintenance contract. If he got called into work on a Saturday he would take me and I would be able to play in everything you can imagine. At 7 yrs of age, it dawned on me that the dude flying that Sabre jet was just one regular-size guy riding one honking big jet engine and what a thrill that must have been. The first time I felt a 172 leave the ground with me at the controls you would have thought I was flying the Concorde!!! 🤣🤭😘Good video!
I always enjoy your videos! One of the most remarkable inflight videos I have seen was.a "sunrise" from a westbound Concorde. No, this was not your typical sunrise on a transatlantic flight to Europe. That Concorde took off from London at around 10:00 at night; the cabin became lighter as the airplane raced against a sunset and landed in New York in full daylight.
As bad as United men-only flights seem today, even worse was an early 1970s "buesenvogel" Modern Air Convair 990 "Get away from your mother-in-law" junket in the early 1970s. The only females aboard were flight attendants with see-through tops. That monstrosity was never to be repeated.
Other double deck airliners: the Breguet Deux-Ponts of 1951 and Short Sandringham of 1943. Aviation is full of oddities, much of which I have learned on your delightful channel and beautiful book illustrations.
I agree with Barry, great video.
This was fun! Thanks a bunch.
I was a week past my seventh birthday in '62 when my dad and i went to the moon from Disneyland. As we sat in the theater waiting for the trip to start i leaned over and reminded him that i had to be back at school next Monday. He kinda chuckled and said, "yeah, it'll be close but we'll get you there."
Love it!
SAA also painted squares round C-54 windows, and another two deck airline was the French Breguet Deux Pont.
Another great video, Mike. But you missed a great chance to insert another "Model Box Top" when you were discussing TWA and a rocket. (The Disney Moonliner) I was expecting to see either the Strombecker or the Glencoe kit any second.
Great point!
We are all a bunch of av geeks that subscribe to this channel. Model geeks too.
Nice way to start my day. This was lots of fun and great pictures.
I don’t know much about AIRLINERS, the only one I know is the DC - 3
Read about HOWARD HUGHES and the EARLY AIRLINE WARS and the monopolies for air travelers…
Just like military aircraft there are so many variations
I’LL WATCH THIS A FEW TIMES, I always do…
Interesting video
THANKS, MIKE
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Love your channel Mike. Living in many Alaskan bush locations on FAA stations in the 60’s, I was surrounded with aircraft and got to fly in many. Not having very many cars to play on it was motorcycles, snow machines and airplanes. Today at 73 I’ve made up for the lack of cars, I own over 50 classics and work on restorations. Alaska was a one way trip for many vehicles due to cost of returning them after they were just an old car by then.
I got a lot of the answers correct, but also learned a lot from you. Now, just like my Easter egg hunt I can re-take the test daily with about the same results. GOD Bless
Appreciate the comment, thanks!
Great video Mike, keep them coming! One correction on the removal of the olives on AA:. It happened around 1987 not 1968; Bob Crandall didn't become CEO until 1985 and it was indeed his idea as one of many cost-saving initiatives to allow AA to better compete with the many startup airlines of that era.
Good catch, thanks!
And regarding double deck aircraft, don't overlook the piston powered French Breguet 763 Deux Ponts, which first flew in 1949 before entering a successful airine career. Great trivia test!
A Zeppelin question?... come on Mike!. Lol 😂
Cmon SM, if you're going to be a part of this av geek club, you better be up on all subjects!✌
Very very interesting old historical facts !!! Thank you
Appreciate the comment, thanks!
Ah...gotta go back to school...I got a couple wrong! Great video Mike.
Mike, I absolutely enjoyed this informative video. Thank you so much
Very cool video. You need to do more like this one.
Those alcohol heaters in heavy turbulence are a scary thought!
Enjoyed that. Many thanks. Just a note - You miised the Breguet 763 "Deux Pont" for the double-decket question. All the best.
Thanks for the comment and yes, the Breguet 763 was indeed a double-decker complete with elevator between the two levels. However, it first flew on February 15, 1949, two years after Boeing's Stratocruiser.
Awesome episode!
Great Fun 🛫
I have a number of artifacts from UAL's "Executive, men only" flights including a fish scale with the period United logo on it and an oval, smoke colored glass plate with a United Caravelle on it. Didn't United also offer "Executive flights" between San Franciso and L.A? Anyway, nice quiz regarding airliners. Thanks for sharing!
That Constellation at 3:58 must be flying around P.V. Hill. I remember that TWA rocket at Disneyland --- as a kid I really thought we did go to the moon. Mike, you had some really good questions. Thanks again for your time and hard work.
14/20 - 70%. Not bad. A lot of guesses. What is great is the detailed explanations for each question and answer. The only one I was 1000+% sure of was the second airliner to fly. Thanks for the quiz and the details that followed. Looking forward to some more of these fun history lessons.
I did get most right. But it's always enjoyable watching and learning..
Nice video
Many thanks!
@@celebratingaviationwithmik9782 You're welcome
Lots of fun facts….thanks…
I’m a bit late on this one, but I did watch on Monday and got most correct, but not all. Also on the Zeppelin moring on the Empire State Building, I seem to remembering reading a book on the history of the Zeppelin company back in my Jr. High modeling days, late 1950s that the Graf Zeppelin and perhaps the Hindenburg tied up their once. I was big into Zeppelins then - built a model of the Graf Zeppelin- and read several books on them. If my memory has not gone all to pot, I recall seeing more than one different pictures of the GZ at the top of the Empire State, at least one was taken from above from another aircraft. I believe it was decided after one or more dockings that the winds were to dicey up there and the practice was discontinued. And lest I forget again Shout Outs to you and Max for the Carrier landing experiments the week before. A Hercules, or a U-2 landing on a Carrier, who’d a thunk it.
When I was in A&P school we had an old H19 that was one is the LA airways helicopters. It was nice to see one in this video.
Very cool!
Thank You! I've been a fan of your artwork for 40 years and this was fun. Just subscribed.
Many thanks and great to have you aboard!
Great quiz Mike. Sorry(?) to say I maxed out on the Nerdometer, I think got 100% right. Just one point viz the turbofan intro question, the first turbofan (albeit of low by-pass ratio) in service was the RR Conway as fitted to the 707-4 series and VC10, it didn't have an outsize fan cowling and looked pretty much identical to the pure jet nacelles. You are so lucky to have flown in Concorde. As a trainee controller at the London ACC I worked the first London-New York service and later on as head of operations there I was responsible for SST ATC procedures and special flights. I was promised familiarisation flights over the Atlantic but never got round to taking up the offers, alas I was just considering getting one when the AF example crashed and I missed my chance. Many of my colleagues took the opportunity, some of whom had never actually worked a Concorde, so I was a bit hacked off at my laxity! Keep up the good work.
Obviously the "most beautiful airplane ever flown" changes day to day, minute to minute. As a child, 1 - 6 years old, I would watch Connies take off and land at LAX, 1953-1960. In those moments there was only one.
What a great post as usual Mr. Machat!! These quiz's are neat! I always learn something. I knew some of the answers, but as usual, some completely floored me. Can't express how much I enjoy your channel. Keep up the great posts!! As always God Bless you and your family. Thanks again for everything you do! Take care always Sir!!
Top notch as always Mike. Wish I could give them all more than just one like!
That was amazing fun - and educational. Great post!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Outstanding, Mike !!
Great video. I’m got about 50%😂. You got me with several!
Hello Mike and I very much enjoyed the trivia questions and answers, thank you. I was reminded of a Dallas to San Angelo flight where the plane flew right at the top of the cloud layer with a beautiful night sky above. Thought we were blasting thru the snow on a jet powered sleigh. You have so many fun and interesting anecdotes. I will save the one about the flooded business class trip from Boston to Mumbai. 😮. Take care.
Very enjoyable, thank you. 👍
A very original topic, Mike. I have to reflect though on the question about the first Double Deck airliner. In my opinion that was the Junkers G.38 of 1931. At least two of these were equipped with double passenger decks and flown operationally.
Great video
The speed brake feature on the DC7 came in handy . Flying as an Airtanker. You could keep up with Jet traffic going down hill.
Thank you so much for this cool trivia. Loved the story about passengers of the Braniff Concorde flight to Texas, not knowing what this aircraft was. 😂
I flew once the Concorde from Paris CDG to NY JFK. Supposed to land some time before the time of take-off, as you rightly pointed out. Unfortunately, mid-course over the ocean, at Mach 2 the external windshield started to show signs of cracks, due to excess heat. We had to slow down under Mach one and fly as low as 33,000 feet. End result : We landed in NY one hour late, but still way earlier than any other jet liner.
Interesting to se a Studebaker pickup truck at Disneyland.
For a retired Airline employee, I missed 3. Not to bad for a 72 year old 🙂
The early B747-100s also had a ‘wing’ position on the gear handle, between ‘off’ and ‘down’ that enabled the outboard landing gear to be lowered as a speed brake. I’m not sure if it was ever used operationally but you could see the lettering for it painted over on the panel on those planes…I heard that it was to make DC-8 pilots more comfortable since the -8 didn’t have wing mounted speed brakes…
So cool you flew in that Concorde!
The DC-8, if I recall, could use the inboard engines reverse in flight, as could the C-5 Galaxy for the same reason - no flight speed brakes. On the other hand, I never heard anything about 747's using landing gear like that. Main Gear Only extension WAS a feature on the DC-7, due to the temperamental turbo compound engines and their dislike of shock cooling in descent.
OK, what if I got 100%? What no prize? Darn. Great episode!
I think you can argue that the first commercial jet was the Vickers Type 618 Nene-Viking when it flew post from London to Paris on the 25 July 1948. This was to mark the 39th anniversary of Blériot's crossing of the English Channel, the flew letters to Bleriot's widow and son (secretary of the FAI), who met it at the airport.
I got most of those right, but the sterno burners in the Connie, I think that might be someone putting you on. I flew the Martin 404 and the DC-3. And the Martin had hot air routed between two window panes in the cockpit windshields for deicing. Didn't the Connie use the same system? I'd hate to be in rough air with that sterno burner sloshing around.
15/4 not too bad!
Another great video, very informative and amazing photos. Not to give my age away but my family traveled to the moon several times with the moon rocket bumpy on takeoff once at speed very smooth. Great work as always.
Never knew that John - how cool!
Gotta like the c102 jetliner..didn’t have the explosion problems of the comet 1. Sadly only ended up used as a photo platform for the Avro Arrow which also didn’t end up going into production…jetliner likely would have ended up with the orenda ten or 14 engines at some point for twin engine operation instead of the 4 Derwents.
The first American turbofan to enter service was the CJ805-23 (J79) on the Convair 990. Unique in its architecture, the fan was located in the rear of the engine. The larger cowling carried through to the rear.
Yes Vik, 'had several comments about this. That intro question was strictly an example to show how the Trivia Contest works. Thanks for watching!
@@celebratingaviationwithmik9782 No problem. Love the trivia and I think it's time to get the 1001 Aviation Facts book!
Model kits of the 2001 "Space Clipper" is still available, but licensing issues means no Pan-Am decals. Bummer.
Plenty of other decal sheets to steal from thought!
The “Crandall “ era at AA was not the Astrojet era; Crandall became Chairman in the early 1980’s, by which time the airplanes were called, perhaps a bit disingenuously, Luxury Liners. But Bob Crandall was indeed the driving force behind the deregulation- induced cost cutting, and it did include the olives. Although whether this was done for fuel savings or saving money on olives is debatable. There is no way that the fuel savings from the absence of less than one ounce can be quantified in any way other than theoretically!
Exactly right. It was about saving $40K in olives... not 40K in fuel to fly the olives.
I stand corrected, thanks. (That story was told to me by a long-time TWA First Class Purser.)
I stand corrected, thanks. (That story was told to me by a long-time TWA First Class Purser.)
5:49Dr. Freud would have been proud.
Great quiz Mike! I surprised myself and got 18 out of 19....
Mike, I was lucky enough to be in Disneyland in 1955 and seeing the TWA “Moon Rocket”. Also, having spent more than 15 years in the airline industry, had many friends one of whom worked for American when Bob Crandall was up top. They had a very unflattering name for him, “Jaws” since he was a very outspoken leader at American. To answer your question on how I did with the trivia, I’d say about 1/2 of the answers I got. Thx for your videos! ✈️
Appreciate the comment, thanks!
Did the Boeing 314 Clipper qualify as a double-decker?
Yes, technically the cockpit was at a higher level than the passenger cabin.
LOVED THE QUIZ...25% CORRECT...IM A GENERAL AVIATION GUY...
Thanks, and 'hope you had fun with the questions.
In 1979, in an area ops familiarization visit to the DFW Tower, I watched as the Braniff tookoff...it busted the 250kt speed limit just a little past the end of the runway. I noted that to the controller he said, "..it's okay, thats just normal/needed speeds for them."
Great video as always, Mike! Only one observation, are you sure they would light the alcohol trays to defog the Connie windshields? I had known about the trays, but always thought the alcohol vapors themselves were enough to defog the windshield. It would seem having alcohol fires in the cockpit would be tempting fate! I tried to find info on this system on the Internet but no luck.
Modern regulations would not allow it today!
Mike, where do you get the time to think this stuff up? Another great quiz. I missed three.
Now it's the Black Cat. (PBY) - the "dark skies" kid called it ugly because his spirit looks ugly and he is afraid. "dark skies" adds vintage-film-effects to vintage film. I'm not making this up. Don't check him oot but if you do slow to .75.
Hi Mike, loved this quiz show! The aerial photo of the Concord parked among other airliners at JFK reminded me of the only time I ever saw a Concord in person. It was an airshow in San Diego, Ca back in 1988. A) I thought it was the loudest airplane ever, and B) I was very impressed by its size. Looking at this photo, however, puts it in a much better perspective: small and sleek among the crowd of heavies! Thanks so much for your continued good work. Take care.
I was at that airshow. It was Air/Space America '88. They offered rides on the Concorde out over the Pacific Ocean. I think it was about a 90-120 minute flight where they took them supersonic, then turned around and came back in to land. The cost was either $1000 or $1500, as I recall. I remember walking by people coming in for their flight, and they were holding onto their tickets. I thought very nasty thoughts about what I could do to grab one of those tickets. 🙂
I once visited the 001 prototype at Le Bourget Paris. First impression: man, this thing is cramped. The 6-inch miniature cabin windows underlined this sensation. The test flight recording instruments were still in it.
@@charlesrousseau6837 I've been on board a couple of Concordes, but unfortunately never in flight. The first was in 1974 in Moses Lake, Washington, when a Concorde prototype was there for ice testing prior to entering service. It was interesting because one side of the vehicle was painted in British Airways livery, while the other was Air France. The other Concorde I was one happened fairly recently when I was at the Museum of Flight in Seattle to give my talk on the X-15. They have a Concorde on display there for guests to walk through. I also was lucky enough to have been aboard the Boeing SST, even if it was just a mockup. The first time for that was when it was at a museum in Florida, then later at the Hiller Air Museum in San Carlos, California.
@@x15galmichelleevans The Air/Space America '88 event offered so much opportunity for a recurring and enduring world class airshow, similar to Paris et al, but was marred by a complex legal and local government entanglement, coupled with a bit of event mismanagement that ended up dooming any chance for a repeat. Being a lifelong aviation nut, I was very disappointed. I was a resident of San Diego for 50 years, so fortunately had the annual Miramar Navy and Marines airshow to provide me with a comforting fix each year. As you probably recall, America '88 also featured a performance flight demo of the Soviet AN-124, which I think was billed as the largest airplane in the world at that time. Now THAT was something to see!! It appeared to be going so slow and low that it would surely fall out of the sky! Those engines, however, were fabulously powerful, and also extremely loud. It was a magnificent event for aviation nuts that I will always remember.
@@tomfolkes4997 Yes, I was very disappointed that they couldn't make Air/Space America into the next Paris Air Show or Farnborough, as was the original intent. Would have loved to have such a huge international air show in our backyard. Definitely recall the An-124, and got lots of amazing photos. There was also a really great Russian aerobatic aircraft, but I don't recall the name of it off hand. One of the greatest aerobatic demos I ever recall seeing. I know the AN-124 made many trips into the airport at San Diego, but don't know if they are still doing that anymore. Glad that you have Miramar in order to get your air show fix. I've attended Miramar many times over the years, but we also had the El Toro Air Show right next door to where I live in Lake Forest. Was very sad to see that gone when they closed the base. Now we have the Great Park, and the giant balloon, but that will never take the place of the annual air show. I'll always remember the time I got to do an air-to-air photo shoot from a Lear Jet with a MiG-17 at El Toro one year. Now that was an exciting day!
The Dash 80 was 5 abreast seating, like the DC-9, while the 707 was 6 abreast. Boeing did not make a prototype of the 707. The Dash 80 was the prototype for the C-135 not the KC-135. The tanker concept came a couple of years after the Dash 80 flew.
Be advised, the KC-135's lower aft-fuselage crew station and high-speed aerial refueling boom were first flown on the 367-80 and operationally tested with a B-52 one year before the Stratotanker's first flight in 1956.
@@celebratingaviationwithmik9782 Yes the Dash 80 had the prototype of the refueling boom install, it was a dummy no fuel was transferred. But the the reason for the Dash 80 was to prototype the C-135 and for passenger airline applications.
Didn't know about that domestic Concorde flight; don't understand why it existed. The single reason anybody would use the Concorde is because of its speed, and they didn't. But stuck with the fuel guzzling and a limited capacity
Braniff's logic was that passengers could save three hours on flights between Dallas and London or Paris. Thanks for watching!
Great post, thank you very much.
So that somewhat more modern contemporaries can get to the point more quickly, it would be nice if you also gave all the information in the metric system.
When you have kilometers, meters, centimeters and millimeters at your disposal, it is annoying that primitive feet etc. have to be read and mentally converted. Many thanks!
you have to BE definitely the best. saludos
Many thanks!
pretty swell!
Good one, Mike. Am I an airline geek if I got them all right?😮
Yes, absolutely, and join the club!
Nothing was said about the stunt that sold planes. A 707 doing a barrel roll.
Re Concorde on US internal flights, as the FAA did not permit foreign registered aircraft to operate on domestic routes , the aircraft had to be transfer to an american N registration and the original G number had to be changed to an N registation when it arrived in the US and vice versa when it left IAD
Yes, that is correct. Our aircraft was re-registered with a Scotchcal adhesive sticker from "F-BVFC" to "N94FC." Thanks for watching!
Mike we all know MD bought Boeing…
Go ahead, Mister Machat, it's alright to admit you flew the Concord (big weird grape) to Paris.
No one else had service between DC & Dallas, or any other flight within the US, at a speed as high as Mach .95. That was Concorde’s most efficient subsonic cruise speed. I believe it was Secor Brown who said no articulate voting population would ever permit supersonic domestic airline travel. (Not accounting for the possibility that one day we could fly supersonic without putting a boom on the ground.)
Yes, FAA regs mandated that Concorde had to be 30 miles off the coast before going supersonic.
Mike, got a question: Whst ever happened to the 63 Pontiac that was hot-rodded by NASA to pull the M2-F1 Lifting Body? Just wondering, the 1963 Pontiac Catilina is one of my favorite cars "421 and 4-speed of course"
Great question Mike, and I know that machine was part of Edwards lore for a few years after the M2-F1, but don't know what happened after that. Wonder if it's in the proverbial "barn" somewhere in Lancaster?
What about the engines on the Convair 990 aren't they turbofans?
aft fans and they still smoked due to combustion chamber design can
Thanks. 2:05 - would the wings have fit within?... would a 78 cabin accommodate the altitude achieved on the Flyer’s first flight?
Yes on the altitude, no on the wingspan. Span of the Flyer was 40 feet, and max altitude on its first flight was 14 feet. The Boeing 787's fuselage diameter is 21 feet. Thanks for watching!
First jet airliner was the Nene powered Vickers Viking.
See my video on BOARDING AIRLINERS posting tomorrow.
Got most right but many on US aviation by making good guesses, to be honest. Not as up on trans-Atlantic stuff as I thought. Saw Concorde first at 1970 SBAC show at Farnborough. Taggged along with my holiday-job bosses family in exchange for a couple of hours unpaid overtime to complete stocktaking. Bargain!
Which was the first all jet airline in the US?
You are wrong. The first turbofans were manufactured by GE and aft fans on them. They were powered by the turbine section (aft) of the engine and not the compressor (front) of the engine. They were used to power the Convair 88 and 990 aircraft.
The first turbofans were actually Rolls-Royce Conway "bypass" powerplants, used on the Boeing 707-420 series and Douglas DC-8-40 two years before the GE CJ805-23B aft-turbofans on the Convair 990. The Convair 880 was powered by GE CJ805-3 turbojets.
@@celebratingaviationwithmik9782 I stand corrected
Mike, KLM did not operate MD-87 , MD-88 MD-90
The "MD" designation for McDonnell Douglas was strictly a marketing ploy by McDonnell in St. Louis to eliminate the DC name. FAA Type Certificates for those aircraft showed: "DC-9 Series-87, -88, and -90," with the Series-88 built specifically for Delta Air Lines. The MD-11, however, was a unique airplane, and the last Douglas Aircraft Company commercial jetliner produced at Long Beach. The final DC-9 model, the DC-9 Series-95 (MD-95) was renamed Boeing 717 after the merger in 1997. Hence, KLM operated the DC-2, -3, -4, -5, -6, -7, -8, -9, -10, and MD-11 aircraft types.
I got as far as the first "fact," which was not quite accurate. The Convair 990, powered by GE CJ 805-23 engines with aft fans, was pretty much contemporary with the the P&W and RR front fan engines. Though they were ultimately not successful, they were fast. In 1962 I flew on an AA CV-990 from Dallas to NYC. To this day, it remains the fastest subsonic commercial transport of all time.
Good point, but that first question was strictly an example for the contest format. I flew on an American 990 JFK-SFO just before they went out of service in 1967. What a fabulous jet - 'felt more like a B-58 with 100 seats in it. Thanks for watching!
I gave up on this after the very first example, as the narrator answer, or at least the photo is wrong.
Turbojets vs turbo fans…the answer is correct, but then he shows a photo of two turbofan engines. The JT3D-3B, and the JT9D.
Both made by Pratt and Whitney, both turbofans. One having a higher bypass ratio than the other, but there is no turbojet engine in the photo.
The narration was, "We show a photo like this," just as an example of how the contest works. Photos in the actual questions are exactly like the ones you describe. Try it again, and thanks for watching!
Got three wrong 😢
I got the last one wrong. This will not stand.
Well ignoring the glaring and obvious reasons why it would be physically impossible to dock an Airship a top of a skyscraper starting with the fact that are ships are extremely sensitive to wind direction and wind gusts and we know that skyscrapers create their own updrafts and vertices and turbulent air around the structure so it would be the absolute worst place to try and dock an Airship to not to mention the fact that you need a highly skilled team of Naval Personnel to help dock and position the ship to its docking Tower but ignoring all of that if you could do it how in the world would you convince your passengers to climb down a shaky bobbing narrow gangway from the Airship to the entryway on the building 900 ft in the air? LOL
Nathan, see my comment of the Graf Zeppelin docking at the Empire State Building, I believe it was done at least once, but a discontinued practice soon after, for some of the reasons you mentioned.
I've seen a photo in a book of an airship docked at the Empire State Building but it was explained as being a photo mockup to show the concept. I am given to understand that it never happened in real life.
Getting sleepy....