AOPA Pilot Magazine - September 2013 - 40

BRIEFING

TEST PILOT ANSWERS

TEST PILOT

FROM page 36

1. The warm fuel weighs 5.70 pounds per gallon, and the

accurate bomber, it could be placed into a truly vertical

cold fuel weighs 5.93 ppg. (Refer to FAA’s Aircraft Weight

dive without exceeding redline airspeed. The pilot essen-

and Balance Handbook.) The cold fuel, therefore, is 4 percent

tially stood on the rudder pedals.

more dense than the warm fuel and would increase range by
6. True. Such brakes were used before the popular accep-

this amount.

tance of constant-speed, full-feathering propellers to elimi2. Water in the static line. The erratic indications are

nate the drag caused by windmilling and possibly prevent

caused by air bubbling through trapped water.

further engine damage.

3. The B–17’s relief tube exited the bottom of the fuselage

7. They were converted from other types of ships. The

forward of the ball turret. If the guns and the gunner’s view-

first, the U.S.S. Langley, had originally been a coal carrier.

ing area were pointed forward when at altitude, a yellow

The second and third, the U.S.S. Lexington and the U.S.S.

cloud could freeze on the turret and impede the gunner’s

Saratoga, were being constructed as battle cruisers but

ability to aim at enemy aircraft.

were converted to aircraft carriers before construction had
been completed.

4. (e) There is no legal definition for a straight-out departure. A pilot should exercise his best judgment.

8. a) The sun and the moon only appear to be larger. It
would require 360 full moons (touching at their edges) to

5. Dive bombers. Arguably the best known was Germa-

span an overhead arc of the sky that connects the east

ny’s World War II Junkers Ju–87 Stuka. An incredibly

and west horizons.

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