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1. The last point on an airfoil that interacts with the airflow around the wing.
Aileron
Jingle
Trailing Edge
High hypersonic
2. A sequence of drawings representing the shots planned for a film or television production.
Storyboard
Fuselage
Horizontal Stabilizer
Launch
3. A short - memorable phrase used in advertising or associated with a political party or group.
Airplane
Subsonic
Wing Span
Slogan
4. An aircraft that is designed to fly without an engine.
Thrust
Roll
Dihedral
Glider
5. A straight line through the center of gravity of the aircraft and at 90
Center of Gravity
Yaw
M
Vertical Axis...
6. The movement about the vertical axis produced by the rudder and controlled by pedals.
Script
Airship
Yaw
M
7. The flat surfaces located behind the center of gravity tend to weathervane with the wind.
High hypersonic
Keel Effect
Aerospace Engineer
Script
8. The rate at which temperature decreases with an increase in altitude.
Yaw
Thrust
Glider
Lapse Rate
9. The distance from wing tip to wing tip of a wing planform.
Fuselage
Wing Span
Wing Planform
Jingle
10. Out of its own accord - an aircraft eventually returns to and remains at its equilibrium position over a period of time.
Sailplane
Dynamic Stability
Lapse Rate
High hypersonic
11. The common reference point for the three axes of the aircraft.
Center of Gravity
Fuselage
Powerplant
Yaw
12. 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.
Reynolds Number
Aeronautics
Horizontal Stabilizer
Helicopter
13. Aircraft speeds between Mach 10 and 25.
Drones
High hypersonic
Thrust
Trailing Edge
14. Consists of both the engine and propeller in a small airplane.
Lift
Powerplant
Rudder
Boundary Layer
15. Design machines that fly.
Wing
Hot Air Balloon
Roll
Aerospace Engineer
16. Aircraft speeds under Mach 1.
Static Stability
Aerospace
Trailing Edge
Subsonic
17. Mach. A decimal number representing the true airspeed relationship to the local speed of sound.
Glider
Airship
Aeronautics
M
18. Forces and moments on the body caused by a disturbance tend initially to return the body toward its equilibrium position.
Airplane
Static Stability
Helicopter
Lapse Rate
19. Any surface - such as a wing - which provides aerodynamic force when it interacts with a moving stream of air.
Slogan
Drag
Launch
Airfoil
20. The tail assembly of an aircraft - including the horizontal and vertical stabilizers - elevators and rudder.
Fuselage
Empennage
Hypersonic
Reynolds Number
21. Generates the lifting force that helps the airplane fly when air flows around it.
Horizontal Stabilizer
Wing
Trailing Edge
Lift
22. Hinged main surface part that help control banking for a turn
Aeronautics
Supersonic
Seaplane
Aileron
23. A large bag filled with hot air or gas to make it rise in the air - with a basket for passengers hanging from it.
Script
Controllability
Static Stability
Hot Air Balloon
24. A force caused by the gravitational attraction of the Earth.
Aerospace Engineer
Weight
Aeronautics
Launch
25. A rear horizontal stabilizer that controls up and down or pitching motion of the aircraft nose.
Aerospace
Aeronautics
Yaw
Elevator
26. A rocket- launched spacecraft able to land like an unpowered aircraft - used for journeys between earth and craft orbiting the earth.
Space Shuttle
Airship
Flaps
Seaplane
27. Caused by the separation of airflow from the wing's upper surface resulting in a rapid decrease in lift.
Powerplant
Infomercial
Stall
Aspect Ratio
28. Robotic aircraft - used extensively by the military.
Fuselage
Angle of Attack
Drones
Wash In/Wash Out
29. Rolling motion about the longitudinal axis caused by ailerons deflecting in opposite directions and controlled by twisting the yoke.
Aeronautics
Dynamic Stability
Roll
Wing
30. The mounting of wings so that the wingtips and higher than the wingroot.
Leading Edge
Aspect Ratio
Dihedral
Controllability
31. The horizontal line that passes through the center of gravity of the aircraft - perpendicular to its flight path.
Lateral Axis...
Sailplane
Rudder
Aerospace Engineer
32. The art and science of designing - building - and operating manned or unmanned space objects
Hot Air Balloon
Drones
Aeronautics
Boundary Layer
33. A straight line parallel to the length of the fuselage but that runs through the aircraft's center of gravity.
Elevator
Weight
Keel Effect
Longitudinal Axis...
34. Aircraft speeds between Mach 1 and 5.
Supersonic
Pitch
Wing Planform
Aerospace
35. 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
Dynamic Stability
Launch
Aeronautics
36. An aircraft with floats or skis instead of wheels - designed to land on and take off from water.
Seaplane
Pitch
Yaw
Longitudinal Axis...
37. Branch of technology and industry concerned with aviation and space flight.
Aerospace Engineer
Space Shuttle
M
Aerospace
38. The angle formed by the wing chord line and the relative wind.
Angle of Attack
Fuselage
Vertical Axis...
Trailing Edge
39. Motion around the lateral axis caused by deflection in the elevator controlled by moving the yoke forward and aft.
Cockpit
Rudder
Pitch
Supersonic
40. Aircraft speeds between Mach 5 and 10.
Flaps
Hypersonic
Taper
Empennage
41. 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.
Static Stability
Trailing Edge
Stall
Flaps
42. The study of forces and the resulting motion of objects through the air.
Aerodynamics
Empennage
Pitch
Aileron
43. A short - easily- remembered slogan - verse - or tune.
Horizontal Stabilizer
Aeronautics
Hot Air Balloon
Jingle
44. 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
Rudder
Launch
Lateral Axis...
45. The outline shape of a wing when viewed from above.
Fuselage
Wing Planform
Hypersonic
Subsonic
46. A rear vertical stabilizer that controls side- to- side or yawing motion of the aircraft nose.
Lapse Rate
Cockpit
Yaw
Rudder
47. A powered heavier- than - air aircraft with fixed wings from which the aircraft derives most of its lift.
Airplane
Roll
Lapse Rate
Drag
48. Forward- acting force which opposes drag and propels the aircraft through the air.
Rudder
Thrust
Powerplant
Supersonic
49. A power- driven aircraft kept buoyant by a body of gas (usually helium) which is lighter than air.
Weight
Airship
Leading Edge
Jingle
50. A glider designed for sustained flight.
Maneuverability
Sailplane
Lateral Axis...
Lift
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