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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. A glider designed for sustained flight.
Powerplant
Boundary Layer
Airship
Sailplane
2. A rear horizontal stabilizer that controls up and down or pitching motion of the aircraft nose.
Elevator
Slogan
Drag
Space Shuttle
3. Design machines that fly.
Aspect Ratio
Wing
Aerospace Engineer
M
4. Generates the lifting force that helps the airplane fly when air flows around it.
Rocket
Hot Air Balloon
Wing
Flaps
5. Consists of both the engine and propeller in a small airplane.
Aeronautics
Supersonic
Powerplant
Infomercial
6. The space in the fuselage of a small airplane containing seats for the pilot - copilot - and sometimes passengers.
Cockpit
Roll
Wing Span
Wing
7. The outline shape of a wing when viewed from above.
Controllability
Yaw
Airplane
Wing Planform
8. A reduction in the chord of a wing as measured from the root to the tip of the wing.
Aeronautics
Rocket
Flaps
Taper
9. The angle formed by the wing chord line and the relative wind.
Reynolds Number
Angle of Attack
Launch
Controllability
10. The horizontal line that passes through the center of gravity of the aircraft - perpendicular to its flight path.
Lateral Axis...
Storyboard
Static Stability
Reynolds Number
11. The study of forces and the resulting motion of objects through the air.
Leading Edge
Aerodynamics
Jingle
Roll
12. Branch of technology and industry concerned with aviation and space flight.
Aerospace
Powerplant
Thrust
Script
13. The force that created by the effect of airflow as it passes over and under the wing.
Vertical Axis...
Lift
Sailplane
Drones
14. Robotic aircraft - used extensively by the military.
Static Stability
Taper
Aspect Ratio
Drones
15. A short - easily- remembered slogan - verse - or tune.
Trailing Edge
Jingle
M
Seaplane
16. The relationship between the length and width of a wing.
Subsonic
Wash In/Wash Out
Slogan
Aspect Ratio
17. Forces and moments on the body caused by a disturbance tend initially to return the body toward its equilibrium position.
Static Stability
Glider
Stall
Center of Gravity
18. Aircraft speeds between Mach 1 and 5.
Fuselage
Unmanned Aerospace Vehicle (UAV)
Supersonic
Stability
19. Caused by the separation of airflow from the wing's upper surface resulting in a rapid decrease in lift.
High hypersonic
Aeronautics
Stall
Weight
20. The written text of a play - film - or broadcast.
Seaplane
Script
Pitch
Aerodynamics
21. A rocket- launched spacecraft able to land like an unpowered aircraft - used for journeys between earth and craft orbiting the earth.
Unmanned Aerospace Vehicle (UAV)
Hot Air Balloon
Space Shuttle
Jingle
22. A vehicle - missile - or aircraft which obtains thrust by the reaction to the ejection of fast moving exhaust from within a rocket engine.
Yaw
Rudder
Storyboard
Rocket
23. The movement about the vertical axis produced by the rudder and controlled by pedals.
Dynamic Stability
Cockpit
Slogan
Yaw
24. An aircraft with floats or skis instead of wheels - designed to land on and take off from water.
Seaplane
Hypersonic
Airfoil
Script
25. The distance from wing tip to wing tip of a wing planform.
Wing Span
Lapse Rate
Keel Effect
Airship
26. The part of the airfoil that meets the airflow first.
Angle of Attack
Hot Air Balloon
Leading Edge
Horizontal Stabilizer
27. Mach. A decimal number representing the true airspeed relationship to the local speed of sound.
Fuselage
Boundary Layer
M
Sailplane
28. 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.
Vertical Axis...
Flaps
Stall
High hypersonic
29. Aircraft speeds under Mach 1.
Aerodynamics
Hypersonic
Sailplane
Subsonic
30. 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.
Aerospace
Horizontal Stabilizer
Cockpit
Script
31. The flat surfaces located behind the center of gravity tend to weathervane with the wind.
Keel Effect
Script
Hypersonic
Angle of Attack
32. Hinged main surface part that help control banking for a turn
Jingle
Aileron
Hypersonic
Vertical Axis...
33. The ratio of inertial forces to viscous forces.
Subsonic
Jingle
Center of Gravity
Reynolds Number
34. A sequence of drawings representing the shots planned for a film or television production.
Pitch
Hypersonic
Storyboard
Aeronautics
35. The rate at which temperature decreases with an increase in altitude.
Slogan
High hypersonic
Wash In/Wash Out
Lapse Rate
36. Any surface - such as a wing - which provides aerodynamic force when it interacts with a moving stream of air.
Empennage
Boundary Layer
Airfoil
Wing Span
37. Out of its own accord - an aircraft eventually returns to and remains at its equilibrium position over a period of time.
Controllability
Dynamic Stability
Aerospace Engineer
Maneuverability
38. Aircraft speeds between Mach 5 and 10.
Drones
Flaps
Rudder
Hypersonic
39. A large bag filled with hot air or gas to make it rise in the air - with a basket for passengers hanging from it.
Hot Air Balloon
Flaps
Fuselage
Sailplane
40. The mounting of wings so that the wingtips and higher than the wingroot.
Airfoil
Dihedral
Keel Effect
Rudder
41. A built in twist in the wing so that the trailing edge at the wingtip is raised (Wash out) or lowered (Wash in). This significantly affects the slow flight and stall characteristics of the wing.
Wash In/Wash Out
Taper
Drag
Flaps
42. The last point on an airfoil that interacts with the airflow around the wing.
Script
Trailing Edge
Storyboard
Controllability
43. 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.
Airfoil
Aerospace
Unmanned Aerospace Vehicle (UAV)
Stall
44. A power- driven aircraft kept buoyant by a body of gas (usually helium) which is lighter than air.
Trailing Edge
Wing
Glider
Airship
45. A short - memorable phrase used in advertising or associated with a political party or group.
Airfoil
Fuselage
Aerodynamics
Slogan
46. A type of aircraft deriving both lift and propulsion from one or two sets of horizontally revolving rotors.
Taper
Helicopter
Vertical Axis...
Fuselage
47. Rolling motion about the longitudinal axis caused by ailerons deflecting in opposite directions and controlled by twisting the yoke.
Elevator
Aerospace Engineer
Pitch
Roll
48. A straight line through the center of gravity of the aircraft and at 90
Vertical Axis...
Keel Effect
Script
Lateral Axis...
49. 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.
Stability
Empennage
Lift
Script
50. The tail assembly of an aircraft - including the horizontal and vertical stabilizers - elevators and rudder.
Slogan
Trailing Edge
Empennage
Aeronautics