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Aerospace Engineering
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1. Hinged main surface part that help control banking for a turn
Fuselage
Aileron
Powerplant
Empennage
2. A rear horizontal stabilizer that controls up and down or pitching motion of the aircraft nose.
Dihedral
Slogan
Lateral Axis...
Elevator
3. The ratio of inertial forces to viscous forces.
Helicopter
Flaps
Unmanned Aerospace Vehicle (UAV)
Reynolds Number
4. An aircraft with floats or skis instead of wheels - designed to land on and take off from water.
Dihedral
Seaplane
Aerospace
Leading Edge
5. Aircraft speeds between Mach 5 and 10.
Wing
Hypersonic
Flaps
Sailplane
6. 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.
High hypersonic
Hypersonic
Taper
Stability
7. The mounting of wings so that the wingtips and higher than the wingroot.
Reynolds Number
Dihedral
Stall
Seaplane
8. The study or practice of travel through the air.
Wing
Trailing Edge
Aeronautics
Sailplane
9. Aircraft speeds under Mach 1.
M
Wing
Subsonic
Helicopter
10. A straight line parallel to the length of the fuselage but that runs through the aircraft's center of gravity.
Taper
Longitudinal Axis...
Static Stability
Reynolds Number
11. A force caused by the gravitational attraction of the Earth.
Weight
Lateral Axis...
Controllability
Stall
12. The horizontal line that passes through the center of gravity of the aircraft - perpendicular to its flight path.
Lateral Axis...
Drones
Elevator
Launch
13. A short - easily- remembered slogan - verse - or tune.
Aerospace
Jingle
Script
Hot Air Balloon
14. Any surface - such as a wing - which provides aerodynamic force when it interacts with a moving stream of air.
Flaps
Angle of Attack
Airfoil
Yaw
15. A sequence of drawings representing the shots planned for a film or television production.
Airship
Wing
Storyboard
Stall
16. The movement about the vertical axis produced by the rudder and controlled by pedals.
Unmanned Aerospace Vehicle (UAV)
Drag
Jingle
Yaw
17. The last point on an airfoil that interacts with the airflow around the wing.
Longitudinal Axis...
Trailing Edge
Aileron
Airplane
18. A short - memorable phrase used in advertising or associated with a political party or group.
Thrust
Launch
Slogan
M
19. Rolling motion about the longitudinal axis caused by ailerons deflecting in opposite directions and controlled by twisting the yoke.
Roll
Controllability
Boundary Layer
Lift
20. The common reference point for the three axes of the aircraft.
Aerospace Engineer
Dihedral
Subsonic
Center of Gravity
21. The relationship between the length and width of a wing.
Taper
Aeronautics
Aspect Ratio
Elevator
22. Design machines that fly.
Drag
Seaplane
Aerospace Engineer
Infomercial
23. The flat surfaces located behind the center of gravity tend to weathervane with the wind.
Jingle
Lateral Axis...
Keel Effect
Horizontal Stabilizer
24. Mach. A decimal number representing the true airspeed relationship to the local speed of sound.
M
Aeronautics
Controllability
Glider
25. Caused by the separation of airflow from the wing's upper surface resulting in a rapid decrease in lift.
Supersonic
Stall
Weight
Space Shuttle
26. Acts in the opposite direction of flight - opposes the forward- acting force of thrust - and limits the forward speed of the aircraft.
Drag
Empennage
Dihedral
Lapse Rate
27. The outline shape of a wing when viewed from above.
Wing Planform
Powerplant
Roll
Supersonic
28. A straight line through the center of gravity of the aircraft and at 90
Vertical Axis...
Thrust
Hot Air Balloon
Aerospace
29. The force that created by the effect of airflow as it passes over and under the wing.
Trailing Edge
Lift
Drones
Dihedral
30. A rocket- launched spacecraft able to land like an unpowered aircraft - used for journeys between earth and craft orbiting the earth.
Thrust
Jingle
Space Shuttle
Roll
31. To set or thrust in motion.
Launch
Sailplane
Aeronautics
Hot Air Balloon
32. A large bag filled with hot air or gas to make it rise in the air - with a basket for passengers hanging from it.
Hot Air Balloon
Aerospace Engineer
Maneuverability
Lift
33. A rear vertical stabilizer that controls side- to- side or yawing motion of the aircraft nose.
Rudder
Pitch
Drones
Aeronautics
34. The art and science of designing - building - and operating manned or unmanned space objects
Unmanned Aerospace Vehicle (UAV)
Subsonic
Stability
Aeronautics
35. An advertising film which promotes a product in an informative and supposedly objective style.
Subsonic
Infomercial
Vertical Axis...
Space Shuttle
36. A reduction in the chord of a wing as measured from the root to the tip of the wing.
Taper
Longitudinal Axis...
Vertical Axis...
Reynolds Number
37. The tail assembly of an aircraft - including the horizontal and vertical stabilizers - elevators and rudder.
Empennage
M
Drag
Drones
38. Characteristic of the aircraft that permits you to maneuver it easily and allows it to withstand the stress resulting from the maneuver.
Maneuverability
Drag
Wing
Sailplane
39. The space in the fuselage of a small airplane containing seats for the pilot - copilot - and sometimes passengers.
Aspect Ratio
Lift
Cockpit
Aeronautics
40. A type of aircraft deriving both lift and propulsion from one or two sets of horizontally revolving rotors.
M
Helicopter
Hypersonic
Jingle
41. A vehicle - missile - or aircraft which obtains thrust by the reaction to the ejection of fast moving exhaust from within a rocket engine.
Longitudinal Axis...
Weight
Rocket
Trailing Edge
42. Consists of both the engine and propeller in a small airplane.
Lateral Axis...
Stall
Wing Planform
Powerplant
43. The written text of a play - film - or broadcast.
Wing Planform
Aspect Ratio
Script
Fuselage
44. The rate at which temperature decreases with an increase in altitude.
Lapse Rate
Trailing Edge
Aeronautics
Pitch
45. A thin layer of air next to the surface of an airfoil which shows a reduction in speed due to the air's viscosity.
Stability
Controllability
Boundary Layer
M
46. Motion around the lateral axis caused by deflection in the elevator controlled by moving the yoke forward and aft.
Pitch
Keel Effect
Stall
Maneuverability
47. A glider designed for sustained flight.
Stability
Script
Sailplane
Hypersonic
48. 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.
Script
Flaps
Maneuverability
Glider
49. 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.
Aeronautics
High hypersonic
Wash In/Wash Out
Lift
50. The distance from wing tip to wing tip of a wing planform.
Glider
Aerodynamics
Wing Span
Aerospace Engineer