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Aerospace Engineering
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1. The distance from wing tip to wing tip of a wing planform.
Maneuverability
Cockpit
Aspect Ratio
Wing Span
2. The capability of an aircraft to respond to your flight inputs - especially with regard to attitude and flight path.
Controllability
Slogan
Reynolds Number
Helicopter
3. The ratio of inertial forces to viscous forces.
Lapse Rate
Reynolds Number
Aspect Ratio
Rudder
4. A rear vertical stabilizer that controls side- to- side or yawing motion of the aircraft nose.
Flaps
Angle of Attack
Boundary Layer
Rudder
5. Consists of both the engine and propeller in a small airplane.
Powerplant
Launch
Unmanned Aerospace Vehicle (UAV)
Sailplane
6. Motion around the lateral axis caused by deflection in the elevator controlled by moving the yoke forward and aft.
Wing Planform
Thrust
Wing
Pitch
7. A vehicle - missile - or aircraft which obtains thrust by the reaction to the ejection of fast moving exhaust from within a rocket engine.
Rocket
Airship
Pitch
Aeronautics
8. Generates the lifting force that helps the airplane fly when air flows around it.
Center of Gravity
Flaps
Weight
Wing
9. Characteristic of the aircraft that permits you to maneuver it easily and allows it to withstand the stress resulting from the maneuver.
Maneuverability
Rocket
Longitudinal Axis...
Static Stability
10. 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
Seaplane
Jingle
Reynolds Number
11. The tail assembly of an aircraft - including the horizontal and vertical stabilizers - elevators and rudder.
Wing Span
Empennage
Script
Space Shuttle
12. The flat surfaces located behind the center of gravity tend to weathervane with the wind.
Script
Boundary Layer
Weight
Keel Effect
13. A reduction in the chord of a wing as measured from the root to the tip of the wing.
Taper
Airship
Hypersonic
Roll
14. 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.
Unmanned Aerospace Vehicle (UAV)
Rocket
Supersonic
Static Stability
15. A force caused by the gravitational attraction of the Earth.
Cockpit
Storyboard
Wing Planform
Weight
16. The common reference point for the three axes of the aircraft.
Unmanned Aerospace Vehicle (UAV)
Reynolds Number
Center of Gravity
Wing Planform
17. An advertising film which promotes a product in an informative and supposedly objective style.
Aspect Ratio
Aeronautics
Infomercial
Jingle
18. A rocket- launched spacecraft able to land like an unpowered aircraft - used for journeys between earth and craft orbiting the earth.
Supersonic
Wing Planform
Space Shuttle
Wing
19. Caused by the separation of airflow from the wing's upper surface resulting in a rapid decrease in lift.
Stall
High hypersonic
Taper
Script
20. Aircraft speeds under Mach 1.
Subsonic
Roll
Cockpit
Vertical Axis...
21. Aircraft speeds between Mach 5 and 10.
Aerospace
M
Trailing Edge
Hypersonic
22. To set or thrust in motion.
High hypersonic
Launch
Stability
Infomercial
23. 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
Aerodynamics
Aeronautics
Hot Air Balloon
24. The study or practice of travel through the air.
Airplane
Drones
Aeronautics
High hypersonic
25. Out of its own accord - an aircraft eventually returns to and remains at its equilibrium position over a period of time.
Lift
Glider
Dynamic Stability
Infomercial
26. A short - easily- remembered slogan - verse - or tune.
Jingle
Airfoil
Wing
Lapse Rate
27. Forward- acting force which opposes drag and propels the aircraft through the air.
Aspect Ratio
Thrust
High hypersonic
Script
28. A short - memorable phrase used in advertising or associated with a political party or group.
Slogan
Reynolds Number
Subsonic
Stall
29. A thin layer of air next to the surface of an airfoil which shows a reduction in speed due to the air's viscosity.
Boundary Layer
Slogan
Wing Planform
Pitch
30. Mach. A decimal number representing the true airspeed relationship to the local speed of sound.
Unmanned Aerospace Vehicle (UAV)
M
Dihedral
Space Shuttle
31. The last point on an airfoil that interacts with the airflow around the wing.
Sailplane
Trailing Edge
Aerospace Engineer
Taper
32. The part of the airfoil that meets the airflow first.
Seaplane
Subsonic
Leading Edge
Helicopter
33. A type of aircraft deriving both lift and propulsion from one or two sets of horizontally revolving rotors.
Script
Helicopter
Space Shuttle
Aerospace
34. Hinged main surface part that help control banking for a turn
Lapse Rate
Aerodynamics
Aspect Ratio
Aileron
35. The art and science of designing - building - and operating manned or unmanned space objects
Rudder
Aeronautics
Airship
Horizontal Stabilizer
36. An aircraft that is designed to fly without an engine.
Weight
Angle of Attack
Glider
Trailing Edge
37. A large bag filled with hot air or gas to make it rise in the air - with a basket for passengers hanging from it.
Lapse Rate
Aeronautics
Vertical Axis...
Hot Air Balloon
38. The angle formed by the wing chord line and the relative wind.
Sailplane
Angle of Attack
Yaw
Jingle
39. The movement about the vertical axis produced by the rudder and controlled by pedals.
Yaw
Thrust
Space Shuttle
Cockpit
40. A powered heavier- than - air aircraft with fixed wings from which the aircraft derives most of its lift.
Helicopter
Airplane
Aeronautics
Controllability
41. A glider designed for sustained flight.
Elevator
Aeronautics
Glider
Sailplane
42. The relationship between the length and width of a wing.
Unmanned Aerospace Vehicle (UAV)
Horizontal Stabilizer
Leading Edge
Aspect Ratio
43. A rear horizontal stabilizer that controls up and down or pitching motion of the aircraft nose.
Longitudinal Axis...
Infomercial
Elevator
Aeronautics
44. Robotic aircraft - used extensively by the military.
Aileron
Weight
Drones
Thrust
45. Acts in the opposite direction of flight - opposes the forward- acting force of thrust - and limits the forward speed of the aircraft.
Hypersonic
Drag
Vertical Axis...
Taper
46. 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.
Drag
Seaplane
Storyboard
Flaps
47. A power- driven aircraft kept buoyant by a body of gas (usually helium) which is lighter than air.
Maneuverability
Helicopter
Static Stability
Airship
48. A straight line through the center of gravity of the aircraft and at 90
High hypersonic
Vertical Axis...
Lift
Powerplant
49. Branch of technology and industry concerned with aviation and space flight.
Drag
Center of Gravity
Aerospace
Glider
50. The space in the fuselage of a small airplane containing seats for the pilot - copilot - and sometimes passengers.
Cockpit
Aileron
Weight
Drones