Question: What is a more fuel efficient way for STOVL aircraft to take off rather than vertically?
Answer: using the ramp and a running start

Question: What kind of aircraft are capable of taking off vertically?
Answer: STOVL

Question: What landing aircraft have removed the need for arresting cables?
Answer: vertical

Question: What do Russian carriers include for launching lightly loaded conventional fighters?
Answer: a ski-jump ramp

Question: What do Russian carriers still use to recover?
Answer: traditional carrier arresting cables and a tailhook on their aircraft

Question: What class carrier is the Sao Paulo?
Answer: Clemenceau

Question: Who is the Sao Paulo currently in service for?
Answer: the Brazilian Navy

Question: Who was the Sao Paulo first commissioned by in 1963?
Answer: the French Navy

Question: What did Sao Paulo undergo during the period from 2005-2010?
Answer: extensive modernization

Question: What setback happened to Sao Paula in 2012?
Answer: another major fire

Question: What type of carrier is Admiral Flota Sovetskovo Soyuza Kuznetsov?
Answer: STOBAR

Question: When was Admiral Flota Sovetskovo Soyuza Kuznetsov first launched?
Answer: in 1985

Question: What was Admiral Flota Sovetskovo Soyuza Kuznetsov renamed?
Answer: Tbilisi

Question: What is unique about Tbilisi?
Answer: carrying a heavy cruiser's complement of defensive weapons and large P-700 Granit offensive missiles

Question: What will be removed from Tbilisi in order to enlarge her below decks aviation facilities?
Answer: The P-700 systems

Question: Which class of aircraft carriers is being constructed to replace the Invincible-class carriers?
Answer: Queen Elizabeth

Question: What will the displacement be for the HMS Queen Elizabeth?
Answer: 70,600 tonnes

Question: When is HMS Queen Elizabeth projected to commission?
Answer: in 2017

Question: When is Prince of Wales projected to commission?
Answer: in about 2020

Question: Who is building HMS Queen Elizabeth and Prince of Wales?
Answer: Royal Navy

Question: When did two whisleblowers allege that Boutris  attempted to ground Southwest Airlines?
Answer: 2007

Question: How many planes did the FAA managers allow to fly in 2006 and 2007 that were overdue for safety inspections?
Answer: 46

Question: How much did the FAA propose to fine Southwest for failing to inspect older planes?
Answer: $10.2 million

Question: What former chairman of the committee said it's investigation uncovered a pattern of regulatory abuse?
Answer: Jim Oberstar

Question: How many planes were allowed to be operated commercially although not in compliance with FAA safety regulations?
Answer: 117

Question: When did the aftermath of the Southwest Airlines inspection scandal happen?
Answer: July 22, 2008

Question: who approved a mesaure to tigheten regulations concerning airplane maintenance prodecures?
Answer: House

Question: What does the word 'customer' properly apply to?
Answer: the flying public

Question: how long was the "cooling off" period that the FAA inspectors or supervisers of inspectors must wait before they can work for those they regulate?
Answer: two-year

Question: What epidemic did the FAA have to handle in the 1960s?
Answer: hijacking

Question: Who now takes responsibility for aviation security?
Answer: Department of Homeland Security

Question: When did the FAA become more involved with the environmental aspects of aviation?
Answer: 1968

Question: What is the altitude which the FAA regulates over?
Answer: 500 feet

Question: When was legislation passed that gave the agency management of a new airport aide program?
Answer: 1970

Question: When did the CAA begin to exptend it's ATC responsibilities?
Answer: World War II

Question: What helped ATC controllers in their drive ot keep ahead of the postwar boom in commercial air transportation?
Answer: radar

Question: When did Congress give the CAA the task of administering the federal-air airport program?
Answer: 1946

Question: What did the federal-aid airport program aim to help develop?
Answer: civil airports

Question: When did the agency acheive a semi-automated air traffic control system?
Answer: mid-1970s

Question: When was the Airline Deregulation act?
Answer: 1978

Question: When did the nationwide strike by air traffic controlers union happen?
Answer: 1981

Question: when did the FAA shift to a more step-by-step approach to providing air traffic controllers with more advanced equipment?
Answer: 1994

Question: What helped operate radar in the new air-traffic control system?
Answer: computer technology

Question: When was the Air Commerce Act passed?
Answer: May 20, 1926

Question: Who was charged with fostering air commerce?
Answer: Secretary of Commerce

Question: What new branch was created and operates under the Department of Commerce?
Answer: Aeronautics Branch

Question: Who assumed primary responsibility for aviation oversight?
Answer: Aeronautics Branch

Question: Who was responsible for operating and maintaining aids to air navigation?
Answer: Secretary of Commerce

Question: When did the Grand-Canyon mid-air collision happen?
Answer: 1956

Question: when was the Federal Aviation Act passed?
Answer: 1958

Question: What agency would now act like the CAA?
Answer: Federal Aviation Agency

Question: Who did the Federal Aviation Act transfer air safety regulation from?
Answer: CAB

Question: Who was the FAA's first administrator?
Answer: Elwood R. Quesada

Question: When did the FAA decide to expand passengers use of portable elctronic devices during all phases of flight?
Answer: October 31, 2013

Question: What mode must mobile phones be put into?
Answer: airplane mode

Question: What phases of flight will passengers be able to use electronic devices?
Answer: all phases

Question: Where must devices be put during actual takeoff and landing?
Answer: seat-back pocket

Question: Are short-range bluetooth accessories able to be used?
Answer: can also be used.

Question: When did the US DOT combine major federal responsibilities for air and surface transport?
Answer: 1967

Question: What did the Federal Aviation Agency change it's name to?
Answer: Federal Aviation Administration

Question: Who would the FAA administrator report to?
Answer: Secretary of Transportation

Question: Who approves new programs and budget requests?
Answer: DOT

Question: Who is the final person to approve the budget that is submitted?
Answer: president

Question: What was the Areonautics Branch renamed to?
Answer: Bureau of Air Commerce

Question: When was the Aeronautics Branch renamed?
Answer: 1934

Question: When did the Buerau take over and begin to expant the ATC system?
Answer: 1936

Question: What were the people who used maps, blackboards, and mental calculation to ensure the safe separation of aircraft traveling between cities called?
Answer: air traffic controllers

Question: When did the FAA change it's long-standing approach to air traffic control candidates?
Answer: 2014

Question: What was now favored instead of training and experince at flight schools?
Answer: personality test

Question: Who could be an air traffic controller irrespective of experience now because of the rule change?
Answer: anyone

Question: What did applicants now take that many of them found baffling?
Answer: biographical questionnaire

Question: What retired NASA Office of inspector general is outspoken about the FAA?
Answer: Joseph Gutheinz

Question: How much do penalties against airlines cost per violation?
Answer: $25,000

Question: A heavy penalty for violating FAA reulations could said to be do what?
Answer: impact their ability to continue operating

Question: What did the agency propose to find Southwest Airlines?
Answer: $10.2 million

Question: In what year did Blackpool and Blackburn become independent unitary authorities?
Answer: 1998

Question: In what year was Simonswood transferred from Knowsley to West Lancashire
Answer: 1994