Q 01/05

Unlike the Boeing 747, which airliner is twin-engined?

A) Airbus A340

B) Boeing 777

C) Douglas DC-8

D) Boeing 707

Answer · why

B) Boeing 777

Boeing 777: twin-engine jets are cheaper to run, and once rules let them cross oceans hours from an airport, airlines dropped four-engined jumbos. One...

Q 02/05

The space behind the 747's cockpit, first planned as a crew rest area, became what on early jets?

A) A passenger lounge

B) A baggage hold

C) A second galley

D) A radio room

Answer · why

A) A passenger lounge

A passenger lounge: shown the empty space in a mock-up, Pan Am's Juan Trippe ruled that it was for passengers, and early 747s offered sofas and cockta...

Q 03/05

Pan Am's Juan Trippe asked Boeing for a jet more than twice the size of which airliner?

A) Boeing 707

B) Boeing 727

C) Douglas DC-8

D) Vickers VC10

Answer · why

A) Boeing 707

Boeing 707: Trippe wanted each seat to cost about 30% less to fly and thought far bigger jets would ease crowded airports. 'If you build it, I'll buy ...

Q 04/05

Which engineer left the 737 to lead the 747 design team?

A) Joe Sutter

B) William Boeing

C) Kelly Johnson

D) Donald Douglas

Answer · why

A) Joe Sutter

Joe Sutter had to fight to keep his engineers, because Boeing's best talent was going to its supersonic airliner. That project was cancelled in 1971, ...

Q 05/05

The 747 first flew in February 1969, three weeks before the maiden flight of which other famous airliner?

A) Airbus A300

B) Boeing 737

C) Concorde

D) Tupolev Tu-144

Answer · why

C) Concorde

Concorde first flew on 2 March 1969 and looked like the future of air travel. It was retired in 2003, while the slower 747 stayed in production for an...