Q 01/05

Which hijacker parachuted from the rear stairs of a Boeing 727 in 1971 with $200,000 and was never identified?

A) Clyde Barrow

B) Frank Abagnale

C) D. B. Cooper

D) Whitey Bulger

Answer · why

C) D. B. Cooper

D. B. Cooper's leap is the only unsolved air piracy case in commercial aviation. Boeing later fitted 727s with a latch, the Cooper vane, so the rear s...

Q 02/05

Ellen Church, hired by Boeing Air Transport in 1930 as the first female flight attendant, came from which profession?

A) Nursing

B) Teaching

C) Acting

D) Journalism

Answer · why

A) Nursing

Nursing was the job requirement: Church persuaded Boeing Air Transport that nurses on board would calm nervous flyers, so the first stewardesses all h...

Q 03/05

After World War I ended military orders, Boeing kept its factory busy building boats and which household goods?

A) Cookware

B) Radios

C) Mattresses

D) Furniture

Answer · why

D) Furniture

Furniture such as dressers and counters left the Boeing workshop beside flat-bottomed boats called Sea Sleds, because cheap war-surplus planes had wip...

Q 04/05

Which former NBA team was named in 1967 as a nod to Boeing's new contract for an airliner known as the SST?

A) San Diego Rockets

B) Seattle SuperSonics

C) Philadelphia Warriors

D) Buffalo Braves

Answer · why

B) Seattle SuperSonics

Seattle SuperSonics was a nod to the city's aviation industry. The supersonic airliner was cancelled in 1971 before a prototype was finished, yet the ...

Q 05/05

How was Boeing's Plant 2 bomber factory hidden from possible air attack during World War II?

A) A permanent smoke screen

B) Roof paint mimicking a lake

C) A fake town on its roof

D) Tunnels under a hillside

Answer · why

C) A fake town on its roof

A fake town on its roof, with plywood houses and fake streets, made the plant blend into the neighborhood across the river. Nearly 7,000 B-17 bombers ...