AOPA Turbine Pilot Magazine - May 2015 - 52

PILOT BRIEFING

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CONTINENTAL MOTORS ANNOUNCED FAA certification of its IO-360-AF six-cylinder
engine that can be operated with 100LL avgas or unleaded 91UL fuel.
Germany's Flight Design GmbH will take delivery of the first certified engine in the
second quarter of 2015, Continental said, describing the powerplant-the lightest of its
six-cylinder aircraft engines-as "a perfect solution for the new Flight Design C4 carbon, four-seat aircraft."
The IO-360-AF family of engines provides a maximum output of 195 horsepower at
2,800 rpm. It will be derated to 180 horsepower and 2,550 rpm for the C4. The engine
has a 2,200-hour time between overhauls.
The FAA certified the IO-360-AF (the AF stands for alternative fuels) engine in
January. The engine should benefit aircraft operators in "certain markets where 100LL
avgas is relatively expensive and with the expanding availability of 91UL," Continental
said. The reference is to overseas markets.
-Dan Namowitz

TEST PILOT ANSWERS

from page 38

1. On January 18, 1957, three B-52
Stratofortresses landed at March Air
Force Base, California, and became the
first jet aircraft to fly nonstop around the
world (with the help of midair refueling).
Tail gunners, who are no longer used on
B-52s, became first to fly around the
world backwards.
2. A production model of the fourengine Lockheed 1329 JetStar first flew
during the summer of 1960, more than
three years before the Learjet Model 23.
3. True. Since any degree of dark
adaptation is lost within a few seconds
of viewing a bright light, a pilot should
close one eye when using a bright light
to preserve some degree of night vision
in that eye.

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4. 55 degrees north. On the first day
of spring, the sun is directly over the
Equator, and the pilot's latitude is equal
to 90 degrees minus the elevation of
the sun. If the pilot were at the North
Pole (90 degrees north latitude), the
sun would be on the horizon (zerodegrees elevation).

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5. William E. Boeing, founder of
the Boeing Company, dropped these
"bombs" over Seattle, including one or
more over the University of Washington's Husky Stadium (presumably while
a football game was in progress).
6. (d) The 14th Voluntary Bombardment
Squadron was the forerunner of the Flying Tigers, which became so named by
the Chinese in December 1941 following
the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
7. On October 3, 1967, William J. "Pete"
Knight flew the North American X-15A-2
rocket plane to Mach 6.73 (4,520 mph,
3,930 knots) at an altitude of 102,000 feet.
8. (d) The first two altitudes may be
used because the aircraft would be less
than 3,000 feet agl, and the hemispherical altitude rule would not be applicable.
Because the aircraft is tracking along a
magnetic course that must be in excess
of 179 degrees (because of the crosswind), an altitude in excess of 3,000 feet
agl must be "even plus 500" (or 8,500
feet msl, in this case). 9,500 feet msl
would be an illegal altitude.

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