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In the News
1. Kuwait Airways (1pt)
2. Jim Schuster of Hawker Beechcraft (2pt)
3. The red card (2pt)
4. Accidental discharge of his firearm (2pt)
5. Daher (1pt)
Air Transport
1. Air Europa (1pt)
2. 737-800 - Ryanair (162) Fokker 100 - Click Mexicana (22) (2pt)
3. COMAC ARJ21, Bombardier CRJ1000 and Sukhoi Superjet 100. And should have flown but didn't: Boeing 787 (4pt)
4. This actual airframe had already flown as a CRJ900 - it was stretched to create the new model (2pt)
5. Airbus removed the defunct Iraqi Airways A310 order, which was placed in 1990 (2pt)
6. Former Star member Mexicana announced plans to join Oneworld (1pt)
7. American Airlines revealed plans to buy 100 787s - 42 firm, plus 58 purchase rights (2pt)
8. Azerbaijan Airlines axed one of its three 787 orders in favour of a pair of 767s (2pt)
9. Viking and Ruag began testing their Twin Otter Series 400 and Dornier 228NG development aircraft as they prepare to relaunch production (2pt)
10. Airbus A330. Existing members: 747, 767 and 777 (4pt)
Defence
1. NATO and Qatar (2pt)
2. Bell Helicopter ARH-70 (1pt)
3. Singapore and Switzerland (2pt)
4. Northrop Grumman B-2, Guam (2pt)
5. 90 years old (1pt)
6. C-390 (1pt)
7. Avro Vulcan. XH558 (2pt)
8. Kaman Aerospace SH-2G(A) Super Seasprite (1pt)
9. Gripen Demo (1pt)
10. Boeing EA-18G Growler (1pt)
Business and General Aviation
1. Cessna Citation Columbus, Gulfstream G250, Gulfstream G650, Learjet 85 and Embraer Legacy 450 and 500 (3pt)
2. Vern Raburn (1pt)
3. Dornier Seastar (2pt)
4. Grob Aerospace (1pt)
5. EADS Socata TBM 850 and Pilatus PC-12 (2pt)
Environment
1. A synthetic liquid fuel processed from natural gas (2pt)
2. A mixture of babassu oil and coconut oil that was used to power one of four GE CF6-80C2 engines in a 20/80 blend with conventional Jet A (1pt)
3. Clean Sky: €800 million (2pt)
4. Pamela, Process for Advanced Management of End of Life Aircraft (2pt)
5. A Diamond Aircraft Dimona motor-glider (1pt)
Propulsion
1. Gas Turbine Research Establishment Kaveri (1pt)
2. The P&W Rocketdyne RS-68B and it will have six (2pt)
3. It is the first time that Airbus has flown a prototype engine - with no firm application on any of its products - on one of its test aircraft (1pt)
4. Cessna Citation Columbus - P&WC PW810 Dassault "Future Falcon" - Rolls-Royce RB282 Gulfstream G250 - Honeywell HTF7250G Learjet 85 - P&WC PW307B (8pt)
5. ITP, MTU Aero Engines, Rolls-Royce and Snecma (4pt)
6. It launched its own diesel engine, the Austro (1pt)
7. The Ad Astra Rocket company's Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket aka VASIMIR engine (1pt)
8. Pratt & Whitney, Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (2pt)
9. V2500 SelectOne (1pt)
10. Saab 340 - it has GE CT7 engines and the rest have P&WC PW100s (2pt)
Business
1. a) AAI Acquisition b) Emirates Investment and Development - 80% stake with the remainder privately held (2pt)
2. AIG (1pt)
3. CAI - Compagnia Aerea Italiana (1pt)
4. ATR 42/72 and Boeing 787 (2pt)
5. €90 billion ($141 billion) (1pt)
Spaceflight
1. EADS Astrium (1pt)
2. Elon Musk, his Falcon I rocket (1pt)
3. Virgin Galactic's WhiteKnightTwo (1pt)
4. Automated Transfer Vehicle (1pt)
5. India (1pt)
6. Orion crew exploration vehicle (1pt)
7. Kopernikus (1pt)
8. Arrival of Kibo laboratory module delivered by Space Shuttle (1pt)
9. Iran (1pt)
10. Half Vulcan/half human (2pt)
History
1. Vulcan - Blue Steel Tornado - JP233 Lightning - Red Top F-14 Tomcat - Phoenix (4pt)
2. P-51 Mustang - Lee Atwood, DH98 Mosquito - Ronald Bishop, Supermarine Spitfire - RJ Mitchell, Lockheed Constellation - Kelly Johnson (4pt)
3. F-4 - all the others are "swingers" (1pt)
4. Airbus entered the single-aisle sector with its fly-by-wire, side-stick controlled A320 (2pt)
5. EF-111 Raven, A-6 Intruder, F-8 Crusader, F-105 Thunderchief (4pt)
6. Frank Borman commanded Apollo 8, which orbited the Moon at a height of 110km during Christmas 1968 (2pt)
7. The McDonnell 119/220 was a four-engined, 10-seat business jet that lost to the Lockheed JetStar in 1959 in a US Air Force utility/trainer competition and was later proposed for civil applications, but never progressed beyond the prototype stage (2pt)
8. British Army Aeroplane No 1 (2pt)
9. A 1970s-era "regional jet", the VFW614 was a 48-seat twinjet built by VFW of Germany and Fokker of the Netherlands (2pt)
10. Do 28 Skyservant, AW650 Argosy, EMB-121 Xingu, F-27 Friendship, HS121 Trident, L-1329 JetStar, L-410 Turbolet, SA-226 Metro (8pt)
Photographs
A. Boeing CH-47D Chinook (1pt)
B. General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper (1pt)
C. Cessna 185 Skywagon (1pt)
D1. De Havilland Comet 4 (1pt)
D2. BAE Systems Nimrod MRA4 (1pt)
D3. De Havilland Sea Vixen (1pt)
D4. Avro Vulcan (1pt)
E. Airbus Military A400M/EPI TP400 (2pt)
F. BAC One-Eleven 475 (1pt)
G. F-35 JSF mock-up on HMS Illustrious (2pt)
H. Shorts Calcutta (1pt)
I. RSK MiG-21 "Fishbed" (1pt)
J. Douglas Skyraider AEW Mk 1 (1pt)
K. McDonnell Douglas F-4K Phantom (1pt)
L. Saab Gripen (1pt)
M. De Havilland Sea Vixen (1pt)
N. Hawker Sea Hawk (1pt)
O. Hawker Typhoon Mk1B (1pt)
P. Hawker Hunter FR10 (1pt)
Q. BAe Sea Harrier FA2 (1pt)
R. English Electric Lightning F53 (1pt)
S. Vickers VC10 Srs 1101 (1pt)
T. North American Harvard (1pt)
U. Westland Wyvern S Mk4 (1pt)
V. Avro Lancaster Mk1 (1pt)
W. North American XB-70 Valkyrie (1pt)
X. Bristol 170 Freighter (and MGA) (2pt)
Y. Aerospatiale/BAe Concorde (1pt)
Z. Royal Aircraft Factory SE.5 (1pt)
Total questions: 99. Maximum points available: 165
Source: Flight International
