Re the motivation paper, the technical details at the end can come up.
I had three on my paper (sept 07):
'Of the following, which has the highest theoretical cruise',
'what would the typical cruise speed be of X type'.
'What route would you expect a 737-300 to fly'
I didn't have any on seating config, but I dare say there's ones like 'approximately how many passengers can X type carry' out there somewhere.
The good thing was the answers were obvious if you thought about it, but knowing the details helped save time to spend on the lovely
DST questions.
Stu