AOPA Pilot Magazine - July 2013 - 48

The Advantage is its Simplicity.

BRIEFING
TEST PILOT ANSWERS
TEST PILOT from page 42

1.	 The PT6 first flew on a Beech 18 (Twin
Beech) test aircraft in 1961, but the first
production engines (rated at 500 shp)
were delivered to Beech Aircraft in 1963
for use on the 1965 Beech King Air 90.
2.	Germany’s BMW (Bavarian Motor
Works) also was a major manufacturer of
reciprocating engines during both world

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3.	(b)	 Such a landing must be demonstrated during certification flight testing.
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5.	Keystone light bombers (twin-engine
biplanes) dropped high explosives so as
to divert the approaching river of lava and
molten rock.
6.	False. A turning airplane is accelerated
by the horizontal component of wing lift
(the turning force). Otherwise the aircraft
would continue in a straight line. An airplane is accelerating—it is in accelerated
flight—whenever the load factor is other
than +1 G.
7.	Lt. Cmdr. A.C. Read and his crew
followed a string of “station ships” (mostly
destroyers) that were highly illuminated
at night and spaced at 50-mile intervals
between Newfoundland and the Azores.
(Sailors aboard those ships also fired
bright star shells into the sky as the aircraft approached.) A string of additional
warships led the way from the Azores to
Lisbon, Portugal.

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8.	(a)	 Lycoming’s XR-7755 was a 36cylinder, water-cooled radial engine that
developed 5,000 horsepower, weighed
6,050 pounds, and had a displacement of
7,750 cubic inches. It was never used on a
production airplane.

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