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A350 wing test

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

Suggested ICAO level for video: 5+

  1. There is more than 2,500 tonnes of steel in the cage.
  2. They plan to pull the wings with great force to test their strength.
  3. They have 12,000 sensors to record data.
  4. Its displacement is up to 5.2 metres under the maximum load.
  5. They pressurise the aircraft to a level that would be worse than in space, more than 1.3bar.

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MH370 – One year later answers

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

Suggested ICAO level for video: 5+

  1. He says that its functions include following waypoints and landing the plane if necessary.
  2. No it doesn’t.
  3. An electrical problem, a cockpit fire, Russian hijackers, that the plane was shot down, and a suicide by one of the pilots.
  4. He thinks it was a mid-air emergency or deliberate action which depressurised the cabin and killed everyone on board, leaving a ghost plane.
  5. It continues to fly in a straight line until it runs out of fuel.
  6. When they find the black boxes.

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Taxibot answers

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

Suggested ICAO level for video: 4+

  1. The engines are shut down.
  2. It helps to reduce noise and emissions.
  3. 800 horsepower.
  4. The pilot is still responsible for ‘driving’ the plane to the runway.
  5. He was impressed with how manoeuvrable the Taxibot is.

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Boeing’s fuel cell technology answers

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

Suggested ICAO level for video: 5+

  1. Fuel cells in the propulsion system of small unmanned air vehicles.
  2. It’s used to break the water molecules into hydrogen that gets stored, compressed and put onto the aircraft as a fuel source.
  3. Eight to nine hours.
  4. She describes them as a very efficient fuel source that produces heat, electricity and water from the electrochemical reaction between hydrogen and air.
  5. With fuel cells, there’s less noise and vibrations, there’s less thermal signature from the plane, there’s increased endurance compared to battery-powered UAVs, and increased reliability compared to internal combusion-engine powered UAVs.
  6. They don’t produce any emissions, it’s a totally sustainable process.

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AA 787 test flight answers

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

Suggested ICAO level for video: 5+

  1. It was a C1 flight, which is a flight by the customer before accepting a new plane.
  2. It involves taking the plane up and performing all of the checks on the emergency systems and everything else before they purchase the aircraft.
  3. They check everything that relates to what their passengers will see, feel, touch, use, look at and everything that the flight attendants use, basically everything that’s in the plane.
  4. According to David, it performed beautifully.
  5. He says it performs just like in the simulator.

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Fatigue testing answers

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

Suggested ICAO level for video: 5+

  1. It speeds up the ageing process of a plane to test what kinds of structural problems it will have over its lifetime.
  2. The plane aged 25 years in one year (due to the testing process).
  3. The tests involve twisting and turning, pushing and pulling the aircraft in different directions.
  4. Their goal is to identify problems that will occur later in the lifetime of the plane and to be able to plan for, or prevent those problems.
  5. There are currently five fatigue test programs in operation.
  6. Teams can learn for each other’s successes and mistakes.

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