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Video answers: ‘Air refuelling’

Here are the answers to last Friday’s video, enjoy!

Suggested ICAO level for video: 5+

  1. They’re approximately 30ft from each other travelling at between 200 and 350 knots.
  2. It extends the range of a plane and allows it to continue its mission with no interruptions.
  3. They pump fuel at 1,200 gallons per minute.
  4. He has to be careful of hitting the other plane with the refuelling boom.
  5. Night vision cameras and 3D glasses have made the operator’s job easier.

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Video answers: ‘SR-71’

Here are the answers to last Friday’s video, enjoy!

Suggested ICAO level for video: 5+

  1. Mysterious, enticing, menacing and sleek are the adjectives used to describe it.
  2. It was needed to conduct reconnaissance missions at very high altitudes and at very high speeds.
  3. No, other aircraft could get to 80,000ft, but only temporarily whereas the SR-71 could fly at a level attitude at 80,000ft.
  4. Its speed was its best weapon, flying faster than Mach 3.
  5. It was used over north Vietnam and over North Korea.

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Video answers: ‘Transforming the jet engine’

Here are the answers to last Friday’s video, enjoy!

Suggested ICAO level for video: 5+

  1. They’re loud, use a lot of fuel and aren’t good for the environment.
  2. The problem is that neither the fan at the front, nor the turbine at the back are operating at their most efficient speeds.
  3. His change was to introduce a gearbox into the shaft of the engine which allows the fan to spin more slowly and the turbine more quickly.
  4. It made the engine 15% more fuel efficient and up to 75% quieter.
  5. They’ll save around $1.5M dollars per plane per year.

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Video answers: ‘Solar Impulse completes its round-the-world trip’

Here are the answers to last Friday’s video, enjoy!

Suggested ICAO level for video: 5+

  1. It started (and finished) in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
  2. It’s as wide as a jumbo jet and has the weight of a family car, according to the video.
  3. It gets its power from the 17,000 solar cells along the wings fuselage and other surfaces of the plane.
  4. The flight between Burma and China was one of the trickiest parts of the trip because of the terrain.
  5. The objective was the make society greener and cleaner through awareness of new technologies.

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Video answers: ‘Farnborough narrow-body disruptors’

Here are the answers to last Friday’s video, enjoy!

Suggested ICAO level for video: 5+

  1. The Bombardier CSeries and the Embraer E2 are the wannabe disruptors from the show.
  2. They were taken on flights to show that the plane is a serious contender to Airbus and Boeing.
  3. People usually notice the wider seats, wider aisle, larger windows and the fact that each row has one and a half windows each.
  4. They didn’t have previous requirements from legacy airplanes so they were able to design it as they wanted.
  5. It’s an evolution of the previous generation with new wings and new engines.

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Video answers: ‘Farnborough 2016 – day 4’

Here are the answers to last Friday’s video, enjoy!

Suggested ICAO level for video: 5+

  1. It was the final 727 to come off the factory line in Renton.
  2. Nowadays it’s used as an oil spill response aircraft.
  3. The plane descends to a level of 150ft over an oil slick and sprays its detergent onto the oil to help to break up the oil.
  4. Boeing had a great week in relation to airline fleet support services, they signed their biggest order ever with Norwegian.
  5. They bought 50 Apache helicopters and nine P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft.

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