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Aviation and Aerospace Industry

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The aviation and aerospace industry encompasses the design, development, and operation of aircraft and airports. Questions often cover airport codes, airline taglines, and basic aviation terminology. This subject is useful for general knowledge and current affairs sections.

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Aviation and Aerospace Industry Questions

Multiple choice

In 2008, which airlines planned to try a new environmental program to execute the longest green journey on its inaugural flight from Dubai to San Francisco, representing the world's first cross-polar green flight?

  1. Quantas

  2. Emirates

  3. Singapore Airlines

  4. British Airways
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Emirates operated the inaugural flight from Dubai to San Francisco in 2008, which was marketed as the world's first cross-polar green flight. This initiative was part of their environmental program to reduce carbon emissions.

Multiple choice

What position does the Terminal 3 at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi hold with respect to area when compared with the airport terminals across the globe?(inaugurated on July 3,2010)

  1. Largest(in terms of floor area)

  2. 2nd Largest.

  3. 6th Largest.

  4. 3rd Largest.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The answer is 6th Largest.The Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson Ms. Sonia Gandhi inaugurate the swanky, world-class Terminal 3 at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi. Spread over 5.4 million square feet, the terminal is the world's sixth largest.

Multiple choice

Air travel is the choice of transport in north-eastern parts of India due to

  1. the prosperity of people of this region

  2. heavy rains, that are liable to damage roads and railways

  3. it being the less expensive mode of transport

  4. All of these

  5. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

 Air travel is the choice of transport in north-eastern parts of India due to heavy rains, that are liable to damage roads and railways.

Multiple choice

What is the full form of UAV?

  1. Unmanned Air Vehicle

  2. Unidentified Air Vehicle

  3. Unidentified Arial Vehicle

  4. Unmanned Arial Vehicle

  5. Unique Arial Vehicle
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Correct option is (4).

Multiple choice

The national infrastructure for airport runways and air traffic control requires immediate expansion to accommodate the increase in private, smaller planes. To help fund this expansion, the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) has proposed a fee for all air travelers. However, this fee would be unfair, as it would impose costs on all travelers to benefit only the few who utilize the new private planes.

Which of the following, if true, would cast the most doubt on the claim that the proposed fee would be unfair?

  1. The existing national airport infrastructure benefits all air travelers.

  2. The fee, if imposed, will have a negligible impact on the overall volume of air travel.

  3. The expansion would reduce the number of delayed flights resulting from small private planes congesting runways.

  4. Travelers who use small private planes are almost uniformly wealthy or traveling on business.

  5. A substantial fee would need to be imposed in order to pay for the expansion costs.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Here the argument states that the imposed fee will be unfair because all travelers will pay it but only the few travelers who utilize private planes will benefit from it. If we can find a reason why everyone will actually benefit from it, and not just those who utilize private planes, then that would effectively weaken this argument.

(1) The existing infrastructure is not what is being discussed. The issue is that a fee is being imposed to pay for infrastructure expansion, so discussing the existing infrastructure on its own is not relevant.

(2) Out of scope. The argument didn't say anything about this fee reducing overall air travel volume. It is very possible that everyone who utilizes air travel continues to do so, but only now they have to pay a fine that for many of them is not viewed as far.
(3) This gets at our prediction, and is thus correct. If the expansion reduces flight delays by eliminating congestion, then probably many air travelers are going to benefit from this infrastructure expansion, not only the few people who utilize private planes.
(4) Completely out of scope. Nobody's wealth is relevant here. (5) Saying that the fee will be large is out of scope. If anything this would seem to strengthen the argument if the fee ends up being substantial for normal travelers, but the magnitude of the fee is in reality out of scope. The issue is simply about whether other travelers having to pay the fee is fair, and it does not matter if the fee is $1,000,000 or $.01 per person.