AOPA Pilot Magazine - July 2022 - 37

Test Pilot /
BY BARRY SCHIFF
AV I AT ION HISTORY /
1 What airport has more runways than any other airport in
the world?
2 An ornithopter is
A. helicopter with more than one set of rotors.
B. a helicopter with one set of rotors.
C. an early name for a gyroplane (or autogyro).
D. an airplane with flapping wings.
3 From reader John Schmidt: Pilots planning to land at the
Copalis State Airport (S16) in Washington are cautioned that
the length of its single runway varies from time to time. Why
is this so?
4 True or false? During World War II, the swastika adorned
the wings of Luftwaffe fighters.
5 From reader Jim Croasmun: What aviation discovery
became the basis for a non-invasive way to treat (get rid of)
kidney stones?
Who flew westbound?
First place lost to history
BY IAN J. TWOMBLY
6 Francis _____ and Amos _____ worked for Sam Colt
making revolvers. They defined the industrial standard for
the inch and are household names in aviation.
7 From reader George Shanks: When a sitting president
flies aboard a U.S. military airplane, that airplane's call sign
will be Air Force One, Army One, Coast Guard One, Marine
One, or Navy One. Air Force One and Marine One are
familiar call signs, but has a president ever flown aboard an
Army, Navy, or Coast Guard aircraft?
8 Why is seizing control of an aircraft by force referred to
as a hijack?
Answers on p. 48
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YOU HAVE HEARD of the first person to fly across the Atlantic
Ocean solo. We all have. The whole world has. Lindbergh went
east. But do you know who first flew the vast expanse westbound?
Three European pilots, Günther von Hünefeld, James
Fitzmaurice, and Hermann Köhl, made the trip west in a custom
Junkers roughly 11 months after Lindbergh headed in the other
direction (John Alcock and Arthur Brown flew together nonstop
eastbound in June 1919). Thought to be impossible at the time,
the trio departed Ireland for Long Island, New York, on April 12,
1928. The next day, lost and low on fuel, they landed on what they
assumed was an iceberg. It turned out to be Greenly Island, a small
outpost two miles off mainland Quebec.
News quickly spread that the three had done it, although
they had landed well short of their intended destination. A major
parade in New York was followed by a quick American tour, and
then an arduous rescue of the airplane before it was shipped back
to Europe.
The airplane was dubbed the Bremen, and despite the success,
certain museums in Germany didn't want it, and the Junkers spent
more than 60 years in Henry Ford's private collection on display at
the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation. Ironic because
Junkers had successfully sued Ford twice for appropriating the
metal corrugated skin design technique. In 1997 the museum
approved a permanent loan that brought the airplane back across
the ocean, its fourth trip, where it is now installed at the Bremen
Airport. ian.twombly@aopa.org
JOHN HOLM; LESLIE JONES
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