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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. An aircraft with floats or skis instead of wheels - designed to land on and take off from water.
Wing
Longitudinal Axis...
Wing Planform
Seaplane
2. A glider designed for sustained flight.
Yaw
Longitudinal Axis...
Cockpit
Sailplane
3. A rear horizontal stabilizer that controls up and down or pitching motion of the aircraft nose.
Controllability
Elevator
Sailplane
Aspect Ratio
4. A rocket- launched spacecraft able to land like an unpowered aircraft - used for journeys between earth and craft orbiting the earth.
Lapse Rate
Seaplane
Space Shuttle
Taper
5. Hinged main surface part that help control banking for a turn
Aileron
Aspect Ratio
Weight
Hypersonic
6. 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.
Space Shuttle
Storyboard
Horizontal Stabilizer
Airship
7. Aircraft speeds under Mach 1.
Subsonic
Angle of Attack
Hypersonic
Trailing Edge
8. An advertising film which promotes a product in an informative and supposedly objective style.
Roll
Hypersonic
Infomercial
Vertical Axis...
9. The space in the fuselage of a small airplane containing seats for the pilot - copilot - and sometimes passengers.
Fuselage
Cockpit
Aeronautics
Boundary Layer
10. The mounting of wings so that the wingtips and higher than the wingroot.
Pitch
Dihedral
Storyboard
Lift
11. The last point on an airfoil that interacts with the airflow around the wing.
Pitch
Wing Span
Seaplane
Trailing Edge
12. The force that created by the effect of airflow as it passes over and under the wing.
Wing
Lift
Drones
Weight
13. To set or thrust in motion.
Launch
Slogan
Aeronautics
Wash In/Wash Out
14. The study of forces and the resulting motion of objects through the air.
Lapse Rate
Launch
Aerospace Engineer
Aerodynamics
15. Characteristic of the aircraft that permits you to maneuver it easily and allows it to withstand the stress resulting from the maneuver.
Lift
Seaplane
Maneuverability
Static Stability
16. A large bag filled with hot air or gas to make it rise in the air - with a basket for passengers hanging from it.
Subsonic
Hot Air Balloon
Jingle
Wing
17. Houses the cabin - the cockpit and is a common attachment point for the other major components.
Storyboard
Controllability
Fuselage
Dynamic Stability
18. The study or practice of travel through the air.
Trailing Edge
Aeronautics
Hypersonic
Airfoil
19. The distance from wing tip to wing tip of a wing planform.
Wing Span
Unmanned Aerospace Vehicle (UAV)
Aerospace
Aileron
20. Aircraft speeds between Mach 10 and 25.
High hypersonic
Space Shuttle
Empennage
Drones
21. A sequence of drawings representing the shots planned for a film or television production.
Controllability
Maneuverability
Storyboard
Static Stability
22. The angle formed by the wing chord line and the relative wind.
Hypersonic
Angle of Attack
Space Shuttle
Rocket
23. Rolling motion about the longitudinal axis caused by ailerons deflecting in opposite directions and controlled by twisting the yoke.
Roll
Boundary Layer
Maneuverability
Slogan
24. A force caused by the gravitational attraction of the Earth.
Seaplane
Center of Gravity
Reynolds Number
Weight
25. 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.
Seaplane
Aerospace
Flaps
Angle of Attack
26. A short - easily- remembered slogan - verse - or tune.
Airplane
Jingle
Helicopter
Empennage
27. The art and science of designing - building - and operating manned or unmanned space objects
Reynolds Number
Wing Planform
Aeronautics
Boundary Layer
28. Aircraft speeds between Mach 5 and 10.
Hypersonic
Drones
Horizontal Stabilizer
Drag
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.
Angle of Attack
Cockpit
Aerospace
Boundary Layer
30. 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.
Yaw
Cockpit
Launch
Wash In/Wash Out
31. A power- driven aircraft kept buoyant by a body of gas (usually helium) which is lighter than air.
Airship
Vertical Axis...
Maneuverability
Static Stability
32. Generates the lifting force that helps the airplane fly when air flows around it.
Powerplant
Wing
Keel Effect
Slogan
33. A short - memorable phrase used in advertising or associated with a political party or group.
Slogan
Wing Span
Aileron
Hot Air Balloon
34. The outline shape of a wing when viewed from above.
Wing Planform
Dynamic Stability
Powerplant
Flaps
35. 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.
Pitch
Seaplane
Controllability
Stability
36. Acts in the opposite direction of flight - opposes the forward- acting force of thrust - and limits the forward speed of the aircraft.
Infomercial
Drag
Helicopter
Aeronautics
37. Forward- acting force which opposes drag and propels the aircraft through the air.
Aileron
Elevator
Lapse Rate
Thrust
38. A straight line parallel to the length of the fuselage but that runs through the aircraft's center of gravity.
Longitudinal Axis...
Powerplant
Empennage
Storyboard
39. The flat surfaces located behind the center of gravity tend to weathervane with the wind.
Longitudinal Axis...
Drag
Keel Effect
High hypersonic
40. Motion around the lateral axis caused by deflection in the elevator controlled by moving the yoke forward and aft.
Lateral Axis...
Pitch
Horizontal Stabilizer
Maneuverability
41. The capability of an aircraft to respond to your flight inputs - especially with regard to attitude and flight path.
High hypersonic
Boundary Layer
Controllability
Hot Air Balloon
42. The tail assembly of an aircraft - including the horizontal and vertical stabilizers - elevators and rudder.
Empennage
Glider
Aileron
Boundary Layer
43. The part of the airfoil that meets the airflow first.
Yaw
Unmanned Aerospace Vehicle (UAV)
Leading Edge
Wing Planform
44. Any surface - such as a wing - which provides aerodynamic force when it interacts with a moving stream of air.
Unmanned Aerospace Vehicle (UAV)
Lapse Rate
Reynolds Number
Airfoil
45. A reduction in the chord of a wing as measured from the root to the tip of the wing.
Taper
Trailing Edge
Flaps
Leading Edge
46. The movement about the vertical axis produced by the rudder and controlled by pedals.
Yaw
Slogan
Wing
Infomercial
47. Branch of technology and industry concerned with aviation and space flight.
Longitudinal Axis...
Aerospace
Cockpit
Angle of Attack
48. Consists of both the engine and propeller in a small airplane.
Rocket
Aspect Ratio
Drag
Powerplant
49. A vehicle - missile - or aircraft which obtains thrust by the reaction to the ejection of fast moving exhaust from within a rocket engine.
Rocket
Lateral Axis...
Launch
Controllability
50. The rate at which temperature decreases with an increase in altitude.
Lapse Rate
Unmanned Aerospace Vehicle (UAV)
Slogan
Weight