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Joby and ANA selected to operate eVTOL flights at Expo 2025 Osaka
Visitors to the World Expo 2025 Osaka may be among the first people in the world to experience real-life applications…
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London Luton Airport hosts accessibility day
London Luton Airport accessibility dayLondon Luton Airport (LLA) and easyJet have hosted an accessibility familiarisation day, providing passengers with both hidden and visual disabilities with an opportunity to experience all aspects of the airport’s end-to-end passenger journey.
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Iran launches new private airline Yazd Air despite aviation sanctions
Iran has recently launched a new private airline Yazd Air despite United States sanctions targeting the country’s civil…
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Denver International Airport sets all-time passenger traffic record in 2022
Denver AirportMore than 69.2 million passengers travelled to, from and through DEN in 2022
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Rescuers climb Philippine volcano after plane wreckage spotted
Philippines authorities have launched a search mission to scale a volcano, which last erupted in 2018, after the…
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Luleå Airport invests in new food outlets to enhance travel experience
Luleå Airport invests in new food outlets to enhance travel experienceAs part of Swedavia's biggest investment ever in commercial operations across its 10 airports, Luleå Airport is set to open three new food outlets in spring 2023, after experiencing a strong post-pandemic recovery in passenger numbers.
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Air raid sirens sound during Biden’s Kyiv visit despite US talks with Russia
Air raid sirens sounded during US President Joe Biden’s visit to Kyiv despite the White House and the…
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Connecting Copenhagen to the world
Morten Mortensen Copenhagen AirportsMorten Mortensen, Senior Director Airline Sales at Copenhagen Airports A/S discusses the world of aviation beyond the pandemic, the increasing growth and saviour that is air cargo and the return of passengers.
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Travel remains priority for Europeans despite financial uncertainty, says new report
Travel remains priority for Europeans despite financial uncertainty, says new reportDespite increasing cost-of-living pressures, travel remains a priority for Europeans, with 77% planning to take a trip in the first half of 2023 and 63% favouring international trips within the continent.
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Lockheed Martin to arm US Navy destroyers with hypersonic missiles
The United States Navy awarded Lockheed Martin a $1.1 billion contract to develop a hypersonic strike capability at…
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1. What airplane produced by a well-known aircraft manufacturer was rejected by the U.S. Army in 1973 because it could be brought down by bow and arrow?

2. What is the largest, post-World War II, piston-powered, twin-engine airplane designed from scratch and produced exclusively as a general aviation airplane?

3. Why should every dedicated pilot fly at least once to KFFA

4. Several types of liaison airplanes served the U.S. military during World War II. Best known of these were the first five, the L-1, L-2, L-3, L-4, and L-5. Can you identify these utilitarian “L-birds?”

5. Almost everyone has heard of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning, but what is the Lightning II?

6. U.S. military flight-crew positions often have nicknames. What are the official positions of a boomer, a GAFO (pronounced GAY-fo), a raven, a GIB (pronounced gib), and a whizzo?

7. The Pratt & Whitney J58 (JT11D) engines that powered the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird use JP-7 fuel so inert that it could not be ignited with spark or ignition plugs. How was this exotic fuel ignited during engine start?

8. On November 13, 1942, and after having survived in a life raft in the western Pacific for 23 days, Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, Col. Hans Adamson, and Pvt. John Bartek were found by the pilot of a Vought-Sikorsky Kingfisher, a U.S. Navy seaplane. What was so unusual about the subsequent rescue?