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Aerospace Engineering
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1. The part of the airfoil that meets the airflow first.
Yaw
Flaps
Fuselage
Leading Edge
2. A thin layer of air next to the surface of an airfoil which shows a reduction in speed due to the air's viscosity.
Pitch
Boundary Layer
Fuselage
Airfoil
3. The study or practice of travel through the air.
Seaplane
Fuselage
Pitch
Aeronautics
4. The flat surfaces located behind the center of gravity tend to weathervane with the wind.
Lapse Rate
Keel Effect
Yaw
Taper
5. A straight line parallel to the length of the fuselage but that runs through the aircraft's center of gravity.
Longitudinal Axis...
Seaplane
Keel Effect
Vertical Axis...
6. Aircraft speeds between Mach 5 and 10.
Controllability
Static Stability
Drag
Hypersonic
7. Motion around the lateral axis caused by deflection in the elevator controlled by moving the yoke forward and aft.
Pitch
Supersonic
Static Stability
Storyboard
8. The common reference point for the three axes of the aircraft.
Horizontal Stabilizer
Elevator
Yaw
Center of Gravity
9. Control surfaces attached to the trailing edge of the wing extending outward from the fuselage to the midpoint of each wing. Flaps can increase the lifting efficiency of the wing and decrease stall speed.
Aileron
Maneuverability
Flaps
Stall
10. A sequence of drawings representing the shots planned for a film or television production.
Yaw
Dihedral
Weight
Storyboard
11. A power- driven aircraft kept buoyant by a body of gas (usually helium) which is lighter than air.
Pitch
Rocket
Airship
Thrust
12. The rate at which temperature decreases with an increase in altitude.
Yaw
Aeronautics
Lapse Rate
Flaps
13. Design machines that fly.
Wing Planform
Aerospace Engineer
Rudder
Subsonic
14. Any surface - such as a wing - which provides aerodynamic force when it interacts with a moving stream of air.
Elevator
Wash In/Wash Out
Airfoil
Aerospace Engineer
15. Houses the cabin - the cockpit and is a common attachment point for the other major components.
Jingle
Fuselage
Dihedral
Flaps
16. Robotic aircraft - used extensively by the military.
Powerplant
Supersonic
Aerospace
Drones
17. Acts in the opposite direction of flight - opposes the forward- acting force of thrust - and limits the forward speed of the aircraft.
Longitudinal Axis...
Drag
Subsonic
Aeronautics
18. The capability of an aircraft to respond to your flight inputs - especially with regard to attitude and flight path.
Controllability
Dynamic Stability
Thrust
Center of Gravity
19. A reduction in the chord of a wing as measured from the root to the tip of the wing.
Weight
Taper
Glider
Aerodynamics
20. The study of forces and the resulting motion of objects through the air.
Rocket
Weight
Thrust
Aerodynamics
21. Generates the lifting force that helps the airplane fly when air flows around it.
Cockpit
Slogan
Hypersonic
Wing
22. A type of aircraft deriving both lift and propulsion from one or two sets of horizontally revolving rotors.
Helicopter
Dihedral
Powerplant
Subsonic
23. A short - easily- remembered slogan - verse - or tune.
Jingle
Unmanned Aerospace Vehicle (UAV)
Roll
Infomercial
24. The written text of a play - film - or broadcast.
Script
Keel Effect
Vertical Axis...
Airplane
25. Characteristic of the aircraft that permits you to maneuver it easily and allows it to withstand the stress resulting from the maneuver.
Helicopter
Fuselage
Maneuverability
Wing
26. Caused by the separation of airflow from the wing's upper surface resulting in a rapid decrease in lift.
Aeronautics
Stall
Drag
Slogan
27. The mounting of wings so that the wingtips and higher than the wingroot.
Dihedral
Jingle
Wash In/Wash Out
Lateral Axis...
28. The relationship between the length and width of a wing.
Rocket
Aspect Ratio
Boundary Layer
M
29. A vehicle - missile - or aircraft which obtains thrust by the reaction to the ejection of fast moving exhaust from within a rocket engine.
Glider
Stability
Rocket
Unmanned Aerospace Vehicle (UAV)
30. Aircraft stability is the characteristic of an airplane in flight that causes it to return to a condition of equilibrium - or steady flight - after it is disturbed.
Angle of Attack
Subsonic
Stability
Weight
31. Hinged main surface part that help control banking for a turn
Wash In/Wash Out
Leading Edge
Aileron
High hypersonic
32. An aircraft that is designed to fly without an engine.
Wing Planform
Glider
Seaplane
Lateral Axis...
33. Aircraft speeds under Mach 1.
Stability
Subsonic
Fuselage
Aileron
34. Forces and moments on the body caused by a disturbance tend initially to return the body toward its equilibrium position.
Static Stability
Launch
Seaplane
Aileron
35. The horizontal line that passes through the center of gravity of the aircraft - perpendicular to its flight path.
Lateral Axis...
Supersonic
Dihedral
Yaw
36. The outline shape of a wing when viewed from above.
Horizontal Stabilizer
Wing Planform
Subsonic
Elevator
37. The space in the fuselage of a small airplane containing seats for the pilot - copilot - and sometimes passengers.
Cockpit
Stall
Vertical Axis...
Aileron
38. The art and science of designing - building - and operating manned or unmanned space objects
Slogan
High hypersonic
Aeronautics
Aspect Ratio
39. Mach. A decimal number representing the true airspeed relationship to the local speed of sound.
Space Shuttle
Wing
M
Fuselage
40. Consists of both the engine and propeller in a small airplane.
Seaplane
Powerplant
Wash In/Wash Out
Airship
41. A force caused by the gravitational attraction of the Earth.
Aileron
Rocket
Weight
Static Stability
42. A straight line through the center of gravity of the aircraft and at 90
Rocket
Horizontal Stabilizer
Wing Span
Vertical Axis...
43. The angle formed by the wing chord line and the relative wind.
Launch
Lapse Rate
Angle of Attack
Lateral Axis...
44. A rocket- launched spacecraft able to land like an unpowered aircraft - used for journeys between earth and craft orbiting the earth.
Fuselage
Static Stability
Space Shuttle
Thrust
45. The movement about the vertical axis produced by the rudder and controlled by pedals.
Aileron
Dynamic Stability
Aeronautics
Yaw
46. An advertising film which promotes a product in an informative and supposedly objective style.
Infomercial
Airplane
Maneuverability
Fuselage
47. A structure that creates up and down forces at the tail to keep the fuselage aligned in pitch with the relative wind. The structure itself is horizontal while the forces it creates are vertical.
Lapse Rate
Wing Span
Horizontal Stabilizer
Dihedral
48. The force that created by the effect of airflow as it passes over and under the wing.
Trailing Edge
Lift
Airplane
Longitudinal Axis...
49. To set or thrust in motion.
Stall
High hypersonic
Launch
Lift
50. A rear vertical stabilizer that controls side- to- side or yawing motion of the aircraft nose.
Wash In/Wash Out
Longitudinal Axis...
Aeronautics
Rudder