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What's Your Air Force I.Q?
Test your knowledge, take the following test containing a few of the questions from the, "AIR FORCE" magazine.
January 1944
1. A warrant officer is saluted by enlisted men as if he were a commissioned officer:
a. True
b. False
2. The Chief of the Air Staff is (in 1944):
a. Major General William Lynd
b. Major General B. M. Giles
c. Lt. General B.K. Yount
d. Maj. General Walter H. Frank
3. The astro-dome is used by:
a. Navigators to take drift readings
b. bombardiers to help sight target
c. Pilots as a landing aid
d. Navigators to take celestial observations
4. The horsepower developed by each engine of the P-38 is:
a. 1,000
b. 1,150
c. 1,250
d. 1,500
5. To what does CAVU refer?
Answers:
1. (a) True
2. (b) Major General Barney M. Giles
3. (d) Navigators to take celestial observations
4. (b) 1,150 hp
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