AOPA Pilot Magazine - January 2014 - 40

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1. Engine exhaust was used to drive power-recovery turbines, a form of turbocharging. This enabled each Wright engine to deliver an additional 450 hp.
Titanic's pair of slow-turning (75 rpm), 15,000-horsepower engines recovered
an incredible and additional 16,000 horsepower.
2. Air and rain do not flow through the pitot tube to the airspeed indicator.
Instead, ram air compresses ambient air already in the pneumatic plumbing to
increase pressure measured by the instrument.
3. False. First was the French Sud Aviation (Aérospatiale) Alouette II, which first
flew on March 12, 1955. The Huey first flew on October 20, 1956.
4. A balloon is required to display only a single white position light that is visible
from all directions. (All other classes of aircraft approaching a balloon would be
overtaking the balloon as if from behind.) Required also is a single flashing-red
or flashing-white anticollision light.
5. True. This also is why many airports do not have a Gate 13 and many airplanes do
not have a Row 13. Similarly, many airlines will not offer a Flight 666 or Flight 911.
6. (d) A knife-edge turn is effectively a loop performed on a horizontal plane.
Because the airplane is only pitching and not yawing, the turn indicator does
not sense yaw and, therefore, shows a zero turn rate.
7. (b) 4,482,811 tons of freight were shipped from Hong Kong in 2012. Second,
third, and fourth places went to Memphis (the hub for FedEx), Shanghai, and
Anchorage, respectively.
8. Severe turbulence causes large, abrupt changes in altitude and/or attitude,
and the aircraft may be momentarily out of control. Extreme turbulence makes
aircraft control practically impossible and can cause structural damage.

40 | AOPA PILOT January 2014

PHOTO: TIM DYE DIRECTOR, PONTIAC-OAKLAND MUSEUM

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JUST 90 MINUTES SOUTHWEST of Chicago lies the
town of Pontiac, Illinois, squarely on historic Route
66. City fathers have made use of all local resources to
draw in the tourists, including the Pontiac Municipal
Airport crew car.
It's not a beater as you might expect, but a 2002
Pontiac Grand Prix airbrushed by internationally
famous artist Dongbai Tang, who-until he moved to
the United States-was a recognized artist in Beijing,
China. He established his DongBai International
Airbrush Art School in Pontiac and has decorated

the town (a sidewalk painting looking like a water-filled
hole full of sharks), its cars and
trucks, and its people (dress
designs that glow under ultraviolet light) ever since.
Dongbai painted the
car for the Pontiac Oakland
Automobile Museum, which
has loaned it to the airport.
Route 66 is featured along with
aircraft on the car, considering
that busloads of international
tourists come to Pontiac to
see the Route 66 Association
Hall of Fame. When you drive
the car, you are a rolling ad
for the town and for aviation.
-AKM

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