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Question 1

What is the cardinal rule?

Answer 1

Officer first, pilot second.

Question 2

What is the difference between NCO’s and Officers?

Answer 2

Officers have a commission from the Queen of England, and NCO’s don’t.

Question 3

Whom has to salute whom between officers and NCO’s?

Answer 3

NCO’s have to salute Officers, although they are actually saluting the commission from the Queen rather than the officer him/herself.

Question 4

List every Aircraft the RAAF operates.

Answer 4

• CT4-b
• Pilatus PC-9
• Hawk 127
• F/A-18 Hornet
• F/A-18 Super Hornet
• King-Air 350
• Challenger CL-604
• 737 BBJ
• KC-30A MRTT
• AP-3C Orion
• C130J Hercules
• C-27J Spartan
• C-17 Globemaster
• E-7A Wedgetail AEW&C
• Heron
• MQ-4C Triton

Also, there is the:

• P-8A Poseidon (operational 2017)
• F-35A Lightning II (operational 2018)
• EA-18G Growler (operational 2018)

Question 5

What is the Eagle Farm Aviation Society trying to do?

Answer 5

Raise money to restore hangar 7 and turn it into a museum. They even want to put a replica of a Japanese “Zero” inside.

Question 6

What is the story behind Hangar 7?

Answer 6

Hangar 7 was a secret hangar used by the Allies that helped to overcome the air superiority held by the Japanese in WWII.

Men were sent across to New Guinea to scavenge parts from crashed planes. Eventually, with no instruction, and using only scavenged parts, a complete, working aircraft was assembled at eagle farm in Brisbane.

The re-assembled Zero was used in dogfights that allowed allied pilots to test it’s weaknesses and more easily identify enemy planes. It’s strengths were also studied to improve our own aircraft designs.

The parts were also examined to determine which factories they came from, so that these factories could be bombed.