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