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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 written text of a play - film - or broadcast.
Rocket
Script
Empennage
Aeronautics
2. A rear horizontal stabilizer that controls up and down or pitching motion of the aircraft nose.
Wing
Weight
Elevator
Wash In/Wash Out
3. An aircraft that is designed to fly without an engine.
Boundary Layer
Aileron
Glider
Helicopter
4. A force caused by the gravitational attraction of the Earth.
Weight
Wash In/Wash Out
Hot Air Balloon
Script
5. Caused by the separation of airflow from the wing's upper surface resulting in a rapid decrease in lift.
Script
Stall
Lift
Leading Edge
6. A power- driven aircraft kept buoyant by a body of gas (usually helium) which is lighter than air.
Airship
Powerplant
Lift
Helicopter
7. Consists of both the engine and propeller in a small airplane.
Aerospace Engineer
Powerplant
High hypersonic
Vertical Axis...
8. Rolling motion about the longitudinal axis caused by ailerons deflecting in opposite directions and controlled by twisting the yoke.
Roll
Lapse Rate
Stability
Stall
9. A straight line parallel to the length of the fuselage but that runs through the aircraft's center of gravity.
Longitudinal Axis...
Center of Gravity
Controllability
Trailing Edge
10. The horizontal line that passes through the center of gravity of the aircraft - perpendicular to its flight path.
Center of Gravity
Airship
Dihedral
Lateral Axis...
11. An advertising film which promotes a product in an informative and supposedly objective style.
Powerplant
Lateral Axis...
M
Infomercial
12. Hinged main surface part that help control banking for a turn
Space Shuttle
Yaw
Aileron
Script
13. A sequence of drawings representing the shots planned for a film or television production.
Vertical Axis...
Storyboard
Helicopter
Aerodynamics
14. The ratio of inertial forces to viscous forces.
Pitch
Fuselage
Reynolds Number
Slogan
15. An aircraft with floats or skis instead of wheels - designed to land on and take off from water.
Seaplane
Empennage
Angle of Attack
Taper
16. The capability of an aircraft to respond to your flight inputs - especially with regard to attitude and flight path.
Helicopter
Supersonic
Controllability
Cockpit
17. Branch of technology and industry concerned with aviation and space flight.
Glider
Aerospace
Script
Helicopter
18. A vehicle - missile - or aircraft which obtains thrust by the reaction to the ejection of fast moving exhaust from within a rocket engine.
Thrust
High hypersonic
Drones
Rocket
19. The angle formed by the wing chord line and the relative wind.
Reynolds Number
Angle of Attack
Trailing Edge
Controllability
20. The last point on an airfoil that interacts with the airflow around the wing.
Elevator
Trailing Edge
Pitch
Aerospace Engineer
21. Aircraft speeds under Mach 1.
Aeronautics
Wash In/Wash Out
Glider
Subsonic
22. The distance from wing tip to wing tip of a wing planform.
Maneuverability
Trailing Edge
Wing Span
Vertical Axis...
23. The space in the fuselage of a small airplane containing seats for the pilot - copilot - and sometimes passengers.
Cockpit
Fuselage
Keel Effect
M
24. A reduction in the chord of a wing as measured from the root to the tip of the wing.
Elevator
Taper
Aerospace Engineer
Stability
25. The relationship between the length and width of a wing.
Aspect Ratio
Static Stability
Controllability
Cockpit
26. A thin layer of air next to the surface of an airfoil which shows a reduction in speed due to the air's viscosity.
Seaplane
Boundary Layer
Pitch
Angle of Attack
27. Aircraft speeds between Mach 1 and 5.
Static Stability
Supersonic
Lift
Horizontal Stabilizer
28. Robotic aircraft - used extensively by the military.
Drones
Airplane
Space Shuttle
Subsonic
29. Motion around the lateral axis caused by deflection in the elevator controlled by moving the yoke forward and aft.
Wing
Lift
Pitch
Space Shuttle
30. Design machines that fly.
Jingle
Reynolds Number
Aerospace Engineer
Wing
31. A straight line through the center of gravity of the aircraft and at 90
Vertical Axis...
Wing Span
Supersonic
Aerospace Engineer
32. Houses the cabin - the cockpit and is a common attachment point for the other major components.
Fuselage
Aeronautics
Helicopter
Maneuverability
33. The art and science of designing - building - and operating manned or unmanned space objects
Aeronautics
Flaps
Launch
Weight
34. 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.
Supersonic
Airship
Powerplant
Flaps
35. 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.
Horizontal Stabilizer
Drag
Aileron
Lapse Rate
36. Aircraft speeds between Mach 10 and 25.
High hypersonic
Stability
Aeronautics
Aspect Ratio
37. Forces and moments on the body caused by a disturbance tend initially to return the body toward its equilibrium position.
Static Stability
Longitudinal Axis...
Unmanned Aerospace Vehicle (UAV)
Thrust
38. Forward- acting force which opposes drag and propels the aircraft through the air.
Thrust
Aerodynamics
Controllability
Taper
39. The mounting of wings so that the wingtips and higher than the wingroot.
Dihedral
Sailplane
Airplane
Supersonic
40. 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.
Slogan
Stall
Wash In/Wash Out
Controllability
41. The tail assembly of an aircraft - including the horizontal and vertical stabilizers - elevators and rudder.
Cockpit
Supersonic
Glider
Empennage
42. To set or thrust in motion.
Launch
Airship
High hypersonic
Stall
43. Aircraft speeds between Mach 5 and 10.
Cockpit
Wing Planform
Vertical Axis...
Hypersonic
44. Out of its own accord - an aircraft eventually returns to and remains at its equilibrium position over a period of time.
Helicopter
Aerodynamics
Infomercial
Dynamic Stability
45. Characteristic of the aircraft that permits you to maneuver it easily and allows it to withstand the stress resulting from the maneuver.
High hypersonic
Subsonic
Maneuverability
Aileron
46. The study or practice of travel through the air.
Aeronautics
Reynolds Number
Slogan
Lapse Rate
47. A short - easily- remembered slogan - verse - or tune.
Jingle
Sailplane
Empennage
Aerospace
48. Mach. A decimal number representing the true airspeed relationship to the local speed of sound.
Dihedral
M
Thrust
Seaplane
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.
Stall
Stability
Infomercial
Flaps
50. The outline shape of a wing when viewed from above.
Wing Planform
Hypersonic
Center of Gravity
Drag