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Chocks away! Please fasten your seatbelt as we test your knowledge of all things aeronautical.

Take to the skies with our aviation-themed quiz.

QUESTION 1

Which famous plane travels back in time to the Cretaceous Period in 1982 Doctor Who “Time-Flight”?

QUESTION 2

What’s the official name of the X-Men vehicle nicknamed X-Jet?

QUESTION 3

Which 1886 Jules Verne novel features a multirotorgyrodyne called the Albatross?

QUESTION 4 PICTURE QUESTION

Supply the title that’s been removed from this movie poster.

QUESTION 5

In which Star Trek episode does the Enterprise beam aboard a US airforce pilot after his fighter jet is torn apart by its tractor beam?

QUESTION 6

In Lost, what’s the flight number of the doomed service on which Hurley, Kate, Jack, Sayid, Sun and Aaron were travelling?

QUESTION 7

Which TV series had an episode called “Out Of Time”, in which a plane takes off in 1953 and lands in 2006?

QUESTION 8 PICTURE QUESTION

What’s the name of this flying aircraft carrier?

QUESTION 9

What’s the title of The Twilight Zone episode in which William Shatner plays a passenger who sees a gremlin on the wing of his plane?

QUESTION 10

Which actor took Shatner’s place in the remake of that episode, for 1983’s Twilight Zone: The Movie?

QUESTION 11

What’s so unusual about Wonder Woman’s plane (featured in both the comics and the 1970s television series?)

QUESTION 12 PICTURE QUESTION

Name this character from mid-’80s TV series Airwolf.

QUESTION 13

The logo of which real life airline is used on the shuttle in 2001: A Space Odyssey?

QUESTION 14

Which Stephen King novella starts with all but 10 passengers on a flight to Boston vanishing?

QUESTION 15

Which 2005 film centres on an AI-controlled US airforce plane which goes rogue after being hit by lightning?

QUESTION 16 PICTURE QUESTION

What’s the name of this oneperson mini-copter?

QUESTION 17

In which HG Wells novel is a future Earth ruled by a benevolent “Dictatorship of the Air”?

QUESTION 18

Name the punningly titled 2007 horror film in which a virus causes a zombie outbreak on a jumbo jet.

QUESTION 19

Which aviator, missing presumed dead, turned out to have actually been abducted by aliens in the Star Trek: Voyager episode “The 37s”?

QUESTION 20

Which 1960s Doctor Who story was based mostly at Gatwick Airport?