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Aerospace Engineering
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The part of the airfoil that meets the airflow first.
Jingle
Airfoil
Storyboard
Leading Edge
2. The capability of an aircraft to respond to your flight inputs - especially with regard to attitude and flight path.
Cockpit
Aspect Ratio
Airplane
Controllability
3. Design machines that fly.
Aerospace Engineer
Helicopter
Jingle
Wing Planform
4. A short - memorable phrase used in advertising or associated with a political party or group.
Wing
Roll
Slogan
Dihedral
5. The space in the fuselage of a small airplane containing seats for the pilot - copilot - and sometimes passengers.
Boundary Layer
Cockpit
Wing Span
Powerplant
6. The mounting of wings so that the wingtips and higher than the wingroot.
Dihedral
M
Sailplane
Flaps
7. A powered - aerial vehicle that does not carry a human operator - uses aerodynamic forces to provide vehicle lift - can fly autonomously or be piloted remotely - can be expendable or recoverable - and can carry a lethal or nonlethal payload.
Aeronautics
Subsonic
Taper
Unmanned Aerospace Vehicle (UAV)
8. A rocket- launched spacecraft able to land like an unpowered aircraft - used for journeys between earth and craft orbiting the earth.
Space Shuttle
Wash In/Wash Out
Helicopter
Thrust
9. A glider designed for sustained flight.
Vertical Axis...
Aeronautics
Sailplane
Hot Air Balloon
10. A vehicle - missile - or aircraft which obtains thrust by the reaction to the ejection of fast moving exhaust from within a rocket engine.
Elevator
Rocket
Dihedral
Lapse Rate
11. An advertising film which promotes a product in an informative and supposedly objective style.
Maneuverability
Pitch
Infomercial
Fuselage
12. Aircraft speeds between Mach 1 and 5.
Slogan
Supersonic
Glider
Stability
13. Branch of technology and industry concerned with aviation and space flight.
Rocket
Aerospace
Drag
Wing Span
14. The last point on an airfoil that interacts with the airflow around the wing.
Launch
Static Stability
Trailing Edge
Aerospace
15. Acts in the opposite direction of flight - opposes the forward- acting force of thrust - and limits the forward speed of the aircraft.
Lift
Wing Planform
Aspect Ratio
Drag
16. The written text of a play - film - or broadcast.
Leading Edge
Script
Drones
Rocket
17. 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.
Center of Gravity
Drag
Slogan
Flaps
18. The tail assembly of an aircraft - including the horizontal and vertical stabilizers - elevators and rudder.
Angle of Attack
Empennage
Supersonic
Launch
19. Aircraft speeds under Mach 1.
Aerodynamics
Dynamic Stability
Subsonic
Angle of Attack
20. A large bag filled with hot air or gas to make it rise in the air - with a basket for passengers hanging from it.
Airfoil
Weight
Wing
Hot Air Balloon
21. The rate at which temperature decreases with an increase in altitude.
Jingle
Pitch
Lapse Rate
M
22. A sequence of drawings representing the shots planned for a film or television production.
Launch
Storyboard
Aerospace Engineer
Lift
23. An aircraft that is designed to fly without an engine.
Airfoil
Glider
M
Lateral Axis...
24. A rear horizontal stabilizer that controls up and down or pitching motion of the aircraft nose.
Elevator
Dynamic Stability
Empennage
Longitudinal Axis...
25. A straight line parallel to the length of the fuselage but that runs through the aircraft's center of gravity.
Longitudinal Axis...
Slogan
High hypersonic
Fuselage
26. A force caused by the gravitational attraction of the Earth.
Aerospace Engineer
Flaps
Weight
Space Shuttle
27. Generates the lifting force that helps the airplane fly when air flows around it.
Wing
Wash In/Wash Out
Aeronautics
Subsonic
28. 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.
Slogan
Maneuverability
Horizontal Stabilizer
Subsonic
29. Houses the cabin - the cockpit and is a common attachment point for the other major components.
Roll
Fuselage
Aileron
Angle of Attack
30. The relationship between the length and width of a wing.
Jingle
Glider
Hypersonic
Aspect Ratio
31. Caused by the separation of airflow from the wing's upper surface resulting in a rapid decrease in lift.
Fuselage
Hot Air Balloon
Airplane
Stall
32. Aircraft speeds between Mach 5 and 10.
Lift
Maneuverability
Hypersonic
Leading Edge
33. The movement about the vertical axis produced by the rudder and controlled by pedals.
Controllability
Yaw
Dynamic Stability
Drones
34. Rolling motion about the longitudinal axis caused by ailerons deflecting in opposite directions and controlled by twisting the yoke.
Roll
Aileron
Aerospace
Helicopter
35. The angle formed by the wing chord line and the relative wind.
Empennage
Angle of Attack
Script
Helicopter
36. Robotic aircraft - used extensively by the military.
Drones
Angle of Attack
Fuselage
Launch
37. To set or thrust in motion.
Static Stability
Launch
Powerplant
Airship
38. The study of forces and the resulting motion of objects through the air.
Aerodynamics
Script
Rocket
Center of Gravity
39. The distance from wing tip to wing tip of a wing planform.
Wing Span
Powerplant
Launch
Unmanned Aerospace Vehicle (UAV)
40. The flat surfaces located behind the center of gravity tend to weathervane with the wind.
Keel Effect
Airplane
Leading Edge
Static Stability
41. Consists of both the engine and propeller in a small airplane.
Pitch
Taper
Wing Planform
Powerplant
42. Hinged main surface part that help control banking for a turn
Wing Span
Rocket
Aileron
Static Stability
43. A thin layer of air next to the surface of an airfoil which shows a reduction in speed due to the air's viscosity.
Yaw
Boundary Layer
Center of Gravity
Glider
44. A power- driven aircraft kept buoyant by a body of gas (usually helium) which is lighter than air.
Elevator
Airship
Space Shuttle
Unmanned Aerospace Vehicle (UAV)
45. Any surface - such as a wing - which provides aerodynamic force when it interacts with a moving stream of air.
Boundary Layer
Aerodynamics
Airplane
Airfoil
46. Motion around the lateral axis caused by deflection in the elevator controlled by moving the yoke forward and aft.
Pitch
Dihedral
Horizontal Stabilizer
Aspect Ratio
47. The outline shape of a wing when viewed from above.
Rocket
Seaplane
Roll
Wing Planform
48. Forces and moments on the body caused by a disturbance tend initially to return the body toward its equilibrium position.
Horizontal Stabilizer
Subsonic
Empennage
Static Stability
49. Forward- acting force which opposes drag and propels the aircraft through the air.
Thrust
Static Stability
Wing Planform
Fuselage
50. A type of aircraft deriving both lift and propulsion from one or two sets of horizontally revolving rotors.
Helicopter
Drones
Lateral Axis...
Lapse Rate