The Farnborough International Airshow took place in England this week and anyone who was there will tell you that it certainly wasn’t a dry affair — in either content or weather. Torrential downpours flooded out the event, ending it early on several days, but that certainly didn’t drown the flood of aviation news pouring out of the show.
Hope you were keeping up with the deluge of announcements so you can stay afloat during this week’s news quiz!
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Our new Avionics News Quiz is designed to challenge your knowledge on the latest happenings in the aviation industry. Think you’re a true aviation geek? Take our quiz and how you stack up this week!
Airbus and Boeing released their 20-year global market forecasts this week, predicting airlines will require new aircraft in the way of $5.2 trillion and $5.9 trillion, respectively. While the forecasts differ, which cockpit technology did both airframers agree would see a significant uptick in the next two decades?
EFBs
Winglets
Satellite connectivity
Ejector seats
Panasonic Avionics and China Telecom Satellite (CTS), announced a one-year extension of their Ku-band In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) trial that will expand connectivity to several Chinese airlines and how many additional aircraft?
250
100
500
1,000
Boeing has unveiled a new ecoDemonstrator program, which will use which aircraft as a flying testbed for environmental technologies?
Boeing 737
Boeing 787
Boeing 727
Embraer E170
Congress approved a short-term funding bill this week that will extend funding for the FAA and NextGen programs for 14 months. When was funding from the current bill set to expire?
July 15
August 8
Last May
January 2017
What Middle Eastern airline announced it would buy a stake in Latin America’s Latam Airlines Group for 10 percent of the airline’s current shares?
Etihad Airways
FlyDubai
Qatar Airways
El Al
Test Your Avionics News Knowledge!
Try out our weekly quiz to see how up you are on Avionics news!
It’s been a busy week in the world of aircraft electronics, NextGen, in-flight connectivity and everything in aviation. Have you been keeping up with the latest developments? Test your knowledge here to see how you stack up!
Avionics News Quiz
July 15, 2016
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