The official aviation quiz topic!

av8or_guy · Post by **av8or_guy** » 19 Aug 2005, 18:16

200?
100?

HorsePower · Post by **HorsePower** » 19 Aug 2005, 18:42

220 is the right answer!

I have to give you some explainations now:

Major areas are:
-Lower half fuselage (100)
-Upper half fuselage (200)
-Tail zone (300)
-Power plants (400)
-Left wing (500)
-Right wing (600)
-Landing gears (700)

Logically, the upper deck would be named "310" since the main deck starts with "210" and the lower half fuselage starts with "110". But as you seen, the "300" is for the tail. So the upper deck is included into the half upper deck area "200".

Lower half fuselage is composed of:
110 (electronic sout + radom + NLG bay)
120 (fwd cargo compartment)
130 (reservoir 5 + MLG bays)
140 (aft cargo compartment)
150 (bulk cargo compartment)

Upper half fuselage is composed of:
210 (nose main deck section)
220 (cockpit + upper deck)
230 till 270 (main deck cabin)

Tail:
310 (tail fuse section from the bulkhead to the tail cone)
320 (vertical stabilizer)
330 (horizontal stabilizer LH)
340 (horizontal stabilizer RH)

Power plants + structs:
410 (engine 1)
420 (engine 2)
430 (engine 3)
440 (engine 4)
450 (struct 1)
460 (struct 2)
470 (struct 3)
480 (struct 4)

500 (left wing)

600 (right wing)

Landing gears:
710 (nose landing gear)
...
I forgot the others, sorry

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EDIT: After checking, I confirm that all the above is right. What was missing is as follow:
730 (wing landing gear LH)
740 (wing landing gear RH)
750 (body landing gear LH)
760 (body landing gear RH)
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Your turn, Chris

Seb.

Avro · Post by **Avro** » 19 Aug 2005, 19:55

Yessssssssssssssssssssss :dance:

Finally I got it right.

Here's my question :

As you all now there are 2 hydraulic systems on the B737 system A and system B. What I want to know is :

1) on which of the both system does the ground spoiler work
2) Which type of flight spoilers are working on system B.

Have fun

Chris

realplaneshaveprops · Post by **realplaneshaveprops** » 19 Aug 2005, 21:00

1. Ground spoilers are on hydraulic system A
2. Outboard Flight spoilers are on hydraulic system B

Koen

Avro · Post by **Avro** » 19 Aug 2005, 23:20

Correct Koen your turn

realplaneshaveprops · Post by **realplaneshaveprops** » 20 Aug 2005, 10:48

Boeing 737:
Hydraulic System A: A/P "A", Ailerons, Rudder, Elev & Elev feel, Inboard flight spoiler, Ground spoilers, PTU for autoslats, No1 thrust reverser, Nose wheel steering, Alternate brakes (man only), Landing gear.

Hydraulic System B: A/P "B", Ailerons, Rudder, Yaw damper, Elev & Elev feel, Outboard flight spoiler, L/E flaps & slats, T/E flaps, Autoslats, No2 thrust reverser, Alt nose wheel steering, Normal (auto & man) brakes, Landing gear transfer unit (retraction only).

Hydraulic Standby System: Rudder, Standby yaw damper (as installed),
L/E flaps & slats (for extension only), Nos 1 & 2 thrust reversers (slow).

THE question:

NASA did some project with the MD-11: I want:

1. Project name
2. Date of first landing of the project with MD-11
3. Used airfield (very easy one)
4. A/C type used for initial studies

Koen

av8or_guy · Post by **av8or_guy** » 20 Aug 2005, 11:34

1.Propulsion Controled Aircraft
2.August 29 1995
3.Dryden Flight Research Center
4.F 15 Eagle

realplaneshaveprops · Post by **realplaneshaveprops** » 20 Aug 2005, 11:37

Yep, that's correct

Your turn Av8or_guy

Koen

HorsePower · Post by **HorsePower** » 20 Aug 2005, 11:43

1. Dryden program
2. 29AUG1995
3. Edwards AFB
4. F-15

Seb.

Oops, too late

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realplaneshaveprops · Post by **realplaneshaveprops** » 20 Aug 2005, 11:52

http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/ ... 3247-1.jpg

This McDonnell Douglas MD-11 approaches the first landing ever of a transport aircraft under engine power only on Aug. 29, 1995, at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California.
The milestone flight, flown by NASA research pilot and former astronaut Gordon Fullerton, was part of a NASA project to develop a computer-assisted engine control system that enables a pilot to land a plane safely when it normal control surfaces are disabled. The Propulsion-Controlled Aircraft (PCA) system uses standard autopilot controls already present in the cockpit, together with the new programming in the aircraft's flight control computers.

The PCA concept is simple--for pitch control, the program increases thrust to climb and reduces thrust to descend. To turn right, the autopilot increases the left engine thrust while decreasing the right engine thrust. The initial Propulsion-Controlled Aircraft studies by NASA were carried out at Dryden with a modified twin-engine F-15 research aircraft.

http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/MD-11PCA/

Koen

av8or_guy · Post by **av8or_guy** » 20 Aug 2005, 12:44

The aircraft, tail number 53-3129, affectionately dubbed "The First Lady," was one of five AC-130A gunship aircraft retired during an official ceremony. While the other four aircraft were sent to the Aerospace Marketing and Regeneration Center at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, the First Lady went on permanent display at ?............?

av8or_guy

HorsePower · Post by **HorsePower** » 20 Aug 2005, 13:58

Eglin AFB

Seb. (thanks Google)

av8or_guy · Post by **av8or_guy** » 20 Aug 2005, 13:59

8) correct horsepower your turn!

HorsePower · Post by **HorsePower** » 20 Aug 2005, 14:15

Ok, I found a question:

Air France was composed of 5 small airlines (4+1) when she was created. I would like the name of these 5 airlines and the date of creation of Air France.

Thx

Seb.

av8or_guy · Post by **av8or_guy** » 20 Aug 2005, 14:25

CGTA,CIDNA,Air-Orient,Air-Union formed Societe Centrale pour L'exploitation de Lgnes Aeriennes in 1933 which operated as Air France.
On 30 August 1933 they baught Compagnie General Aeropostal(succesor to LAT)

HorsePower · Post by **HorsePower** » 20 Aug 2005, 15:24

Correct av8or_guy, your turn!

CGTA: Compagnie Générale de Transport Aérien
CIDNA Compagnie Internationale De Navigation Aérienne

Seb.

av8or_guy · Post by **av8or_guy** » 20 Aug 2005, 16:30

What was the date of the First EL Al L-049 flight across the atlantic and what was(or were) the route(s)?

realplaneshaveprops · Post by **realplaneshaveprops** » 20 Aug 2005, 17:20

El Al started schedule service on 29 April 1951 with two Connie's to New York twice a week making five stops.

Koen

av8or_guy · Post by **av8or_guy** » 20 Aug 2005, 18:12

Koen your date is a bit early and im asking the names of the cities it went through to get to New York not the number of stops.

realplaneshaveprops · Post by **realplaneshaveprops** » 21 Aug 2005, 23:45

New source says three Constellations were acquired in 1950, initiating a Tel Aviv-London-New York route on 16. May 1951.

Koen