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Quizzle #1

Test your aviation knowledge!

 

What is "terminal velocity"?

  • A) the highest speed an object will reach when falling through air
    • .
  • B) The fastest speed a late passenger can acheive when running for the plane they are about to miss

What is "V1"?

  • A) The speed attained during takeoff above which the pilots must continue the takeoff, even if an engine stops working.
  • B) The best thing about Mumbai.

What is a "venturi tube"?

  • A) A tube with a narrowing inside, which uses the Bernoulli Principle to measure airspeed.
  • B) A kind of pasta.

What is "turbulence"?

  • A) Bumpy air, often encountered when flying on a windy day, in or near large clouds, and sometimes in clear sky at high altitude with little or no warning.
  • B) Something that comes out of Captain Coriolis after too much curry, beans and/or cabbage.

What is a "holding pattern"

  • A) Flying round in circles, required by Air Traffic Control to slow down an aircraft, to fit it into the planned sequence of arriving aircraft.
  • B) The fingernail marks left by nervous passengers in their armrests after experiencing too much turbulence.

 

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