tom_mn

1. The first nonstop Concorde flight between the US and Europe (1973) occurred between which two airports?

2. What airline did the Beatles use to fly to New York in Feb. 1964?

3. What airports did the flight in #2 use (use names correct as of 1964, please!)

4. In 1936 & 1937, the airship Hindenburg flew commercial flights from this German city to Rio de Janeiro and Lakehurst, NJ?

5. After the Hindenburg burned in 1937, Zeppelin Company wanted to replace hydrogen gas with helium in their airships, but the US (then the sole source) prohibited sales of helium to Germany after what 1938 annexation?

6. Which airport in Europe receives the most daily flights of the superjumbo A380?

7. What is the westernmost destination served by easyJet?

8. 11 members of Manchester United were killed when a British European Airways Flight crashed shortly after taking off from this now closed Munich Airport.

9. Picasso’s most famous work is based on the aerial bombing of what Basque Spanish town?

10. What was the name of the German armed forces legion based in Spain that carried out the bombing raid in #9? Hint: It’s the same name as a German low cost airline.

willit

Stumped on most of these
Fairly sure of

5. Austria
9. Guernica
10. Condor Legion

Guessing
1. Probably France to US, so Orly to ?? JFK
7. Reykjavic

tom_mn

Will: 5-9-10 are correct, 1 is half right. I was going to ask extra credit for #1 but didn't. "How could the flight of a European made aircraft originate in the US?

willit

I presume that the outward flight stopped over in Iceland, there was some sort of promotional tour, and then non stop on the reverse flight.

tom_mn

Not exactly on the flight reason. It was not a commercial flight if that helps.

hetismij2

2 Pan Am, 3, Heathrow to newly named JFK.

tom_mn

That's correct for #2, but for #3 Heathrow did not get it's current name until 1966.

hetismij2

London Airport.
Grew up by it and always called it that even after the name change. So used to calling it Heathrow now I forgot it was not ever thus.

PalenQ

4- Friechrishaven, Lake Constance- guess

3- Idelwild Airport - later JFK - would have said Heathrow

6 - Heathrow

7- guess - Shannon

would have gotten #9 and #3 but none of the rest.

Great tough quiz tom!

Question - what was the first trans-Atlantic non-stop crossing on the Corcorde - year and where to where? (Got this by googling the answer to # 1, which I did not know.)

quokka

4 Friedrichshafen and Frankfurt

5 I'd say Czechoslovakia, i.e. Sudetenland

tom_mn

PalenQ gets #6, Heathrow, which is just a bit ahead of CDG and FRA.

Our favorite marsupial gets #4, Frankfurt, but I don't see any flights orginating in Friedrichshaven in those years
http://www.airships.net/hindenburg/flight-schedule
Curious that there were no Berlin flights?

Austria was correct for #4 according to this website (also #4)http://www.history.com/news/the-hind...rprising-facts

#1 Still waiting for the US side of the flight. I do recall that BA had a hard time winning local permision to land the thunderous craft at JFK. BA sued the Port Authority of NY & NJ to force them to let the Concorde land in 1977.

#7 still waiting

#8 still waiting

willit

Without looking, I'm stumped by #7 if It's not Iceland. Unless they have started flying somewhere remote like the Azores?

PalenQ

do Easy Jet fly to Reykyavik?- the answer could well be someplace like Manchester or Luton or Stansted I guess.

flanneruk

"do Easy Jet fly to Reykyavik?"

Yes. And if they didn't: Ireland, Portugal, Malaga, Jerez, Seville, Santiago, and Gibraltar are all west of Manchester.

I think.

tom_mn

EasyJet's map shows service to the Azores, but I see it doesn't start till April. So Reykjavik is the current westernmost point.

cdnyul

#8- Bombing of Guernica by the German Condor Legion, a practice run before WW2.

Mark

cdnyul

Sorry, did not notice it was already answered.
Never mind


Mark