Airport Management Exam 1
questions & answers graded A+
Post WWII, _____ military airports transferred to civilian use. - correct answer ✔✔500+
Wide body jets have _______ - correct answer ✔✔more than 1 aisle.
US accounts for ____% of all commercial aviation and ___% of all GA activity - correct answer
✔✔40 & 50
First ATC center formed at _____ by ______ Airlines - correct answer ✔✔Newark & Trunk
What is Flow Control? - correct answer ✔✔System in DC connecting all ATC towers.
What makes Flow Control possible? - correct answer ✔✔Inter-facility Linkage
Rationale for Aviation Management - correct answer ✔✔Importance (econ, social, political),
complex, constant change, systemic diversity).
Airmail service began at an air show in ____ - correct answer ✔✔Long Island (1911).
Who was Ben Lipsner? - correct answer ✔✔First "superintendent of the aerial mail service"
(1918).
First airmail stamp cost ___ - correct answer ✔✔24c.
, Otto Praeger was dubbed ____ - correct answer ✔✔Father of Airmail.
Seven improvements in airmail age - correct answer ✔✔1. Night flying
2. Instrument flying
3. Meteorological services
4. federal airways
5. Hard surface runways at airports
6. Radio communication
7. Multi-engine airplanes
Contract Airmail Act of 1925 (Kelly Act) - correct answer ✔✔Compensation paid to contractors
will not exceed 80% of mail revenue, remaining 20% will cover ground expense, 12 airmail
routes awarded.
What were the Airport and Airway Act 1970 titles (2)? - correct answer ✔✔Title I: Airport and
Airway Dev Act 1970
Title 2: Airport and Airway Revenue Act 1970
What did the Airport and Airway act of 1970 say? - correct answer ✔✔Provide for the
expansion and improvement of the airports/airways of the US and begin user charge system to
fund the Airport and Airway Trust Fund.
What is America's largest Trust Fund? - correct answer ✔✔Social Security
What did the Airmail Act of 1930 _McNary-Watres Act) say? - correct answer ✔✔- Act would
consolidate commercial airline service through regulated competition.
- Transform airline service from mail to passenger.
questions & answers graded A+
Post WWII, _____ military airports transferred to civilian use. - correct answer ✔✔500+
Wide body jets have _______ - correct answer ✔✔more than 1 aisle.
US accounts for ____% of all commercial aviation and ___% of all GA activity - correct answer
✔✔40 & 50
First ATC center formed at _____ by ______ Airlines - correct answer ✔✔Newark & Trunk
What is Flow Control? - correct answer ✔✔System in DC connecting all ATC towers.
What makes Flow Control possible? - correct answer ✔✔Inter-facility Linkage
Rationale for Aviation Management - correct answer ✔✔Importance (econ, social, political),
complex, constant change, systemic diversity).
Airmail service began at an air show in ____ - correct answer ✔✔Long Island (1911).
Who was Ben Lipsner? - correct answer ✔✔First "superintendent of the aerial mail service"
(1918).
First airmail stamp cost ___ - correct answer ✔✔24c.
, Otto Praeger was dubbed ____ - correct answer ✔✔Father of Airmail.
Seven improvements in airmail age - correct answer ✔✔1. Night flying
2. Instrument flying
3. Meteorological services
4. federal airways
5. Hard surface runways at airports
6. Radio communication
7. Multi-engine airplanes
Contract Airmail Act of 1925 (Kelly Act) - correct answer ✔✔Compensation paid to contractors
will not exceed 80% of mail revenue, remaining 20% will cover ground expense, 12 airmail
routes awarded.
What were the Airport and Airway Act 1970 titles (2)? - correct answer ✔✔Title I: Airport and
Airway Dev Act 1970
Title 2: Airport and Airway Revenue Act 1970
What did the Airport and Airway act of 1970 say? - correct answer ✔✔Provide for the
expansion and improvement of the airports/airways of the US and begin user charge system to
fund the Airport and Airway Trust Fund.
What is America's largest Trust Fund? - correct answer ✔✔Social Security
What did the Airmail Act of 1930 _McNary-Watres Act) say? - correct answer ✔✔- Act would
consolidate commercial airline service through regulated competition.
- Transform airline service from mail to passenger.
