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Aerospace Engineering
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1. To set or thrust in motion.
Airship
Launch
Flaps
Reynolds Number
2. The study of forces and the resulting motion of objects through the air.
Unmanned Aerospace Vehicle (UAV)
Elevator
Aerodynamics
Lapse Rate
3. A short - memorable phrase used in advertising or associated with a political party or group.
Slogan
Lift
Supersonic
Sailplane
4. Generates the lifting force that helps the airplane fly when air flows around it.
High hypersonic
Static Stability
Wing
Airplane
5. The flat surfaces located behind the center of gravity tend to weathervane with the wind.
Rudder
Keel Effect
Wing Planform
Glider
6. 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.
Keel Effect
Wash In/Wash Out
Aerospace
Fuselage
7. Acts in the opposite direction of flight - opposes the forward- acting force of thrust - and limits the forward speed of the aircraft.
Controllability
Drag
Sailplane
Center of Gravity
8. 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...
Aerospace Engineer
Fuselage
9. Any surface - such as a wing - which provides aerodynamic force when it interacts with a moving stream of air.
Drones
Seaplane
Reynolds Number
Airfoil
10. An aircraft with floats or skis instead of wheels - designed to land on and take off from water.
Elevator
Cockpit
Seaplane
Drones
11. A straight line through the center of gravity of the aircraft and at 90
Keel Effect
Supersonic
Vertical Axis...
Sailplane
12. Branch of technology and industry concerned with aviation and space flight.
Stall
Aerospace
Glider
Fuselage
13. Aircraft speeds under Mach 1.
Storyboard
Subsonic
Longitudinal Axis...
Pitch
14. Motion around the lateral axis caused by deflection in the elevator controlled by moving the yoke forward and aft.
Pitch
Fuselage
Stall
Hot Air Balloon
15. A type of aircraft deriving both lift and propulsion from one or two sets of horizontally revolving rotors.
Powerplant
Wing Span
Helicopter
Weight
16. 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
Drones
Helicopter
Flaps
17. A powered heavier- than - air aircraft with fixed wings from which the aircraft derives most of its lift.
Wing
Boundary Layer
Aeronautics
Airplane
18. Consists of both the engine and propeller in a small airplane.
Wing Span
Subsonic
Powerplant
Lateral Axis...
19. Hinged main surface part that help control banking for a turn
Maneuverability
Aeronautics
Horizontal Stabilizer
Aileron
20. A rear vertical stabilizer that controls side- to- side or yawing motion of the aircraft nose.
Rudder
Boundary Layer
Unmanned Aerospace Vehicle (UAV)
Stall
21. The horizontal line that passes through the center of gravity of the aircraft - perpendicular to its flight path.
Seaplane
Lateral Axis...
Yaw
Aerodynamics
22. The movement about the vertical axis produced by the rudder and controlled by pedals.
Aerospace Engineer
High hypersonic
Aeronautics
Yaw
23. The art and science of designing - building - and operating manned or unmanned space objects
Hot Air Balloon
Subsonic
Aeronautics
Drag
24. The relationship between the length and width of a wing.
Airplane
Leading Edge
Thrust
Aspect Ratio
25. The last point on an airfoil that interacts with the airflow around the wing.
Wash In/Wash Out
Launch
Trailing Edge
High hypersonic
26. The force that created by the effect of airflow as it passes over and under the wing.
Stall
Airship
Lift
Wash In/Wash Out
27. Rolling motion about the longitudinal axis caused by ailerons deflecting in opposite directions and controlled by twisting the yoke.
Yaw
Wash In/Wash Out
Roll
Aerodynamics
28. An aircraft that is designed to fly without an engine.
Glider
Aerospace Engineer
Controllability
Wash In/Wash Out
29. A power- driven aircraft kept buoyant by a body of gas (usually helium) which is lighter than air.
Airfoil
Airship
Lift
Stability
30. Houses the cabin - the cockpit and is a common attachment point for the other major components.
Taper
Wing Planform
Aerospace Engineer
Fuselage
31. An advertising film which promotes a product in an informative and supposedly objective style.
Wing Span
Unmanned Aerospace Vehicle (UAV)
Infomercial
Space Shuttle
32. A glider designed for sustained flight.
Supersonic
Boundary Layer
Sailplane
Lift
33. Robotic aircraft - used extensively by the military.
Reynolds Number
Hypersonic
Drones
Supersonic
34. The part of the airfoil that meets the airflow first.
Stall
Script
Launch
Leading Edge
35. Mach. A decimal number representing the true airspeed relationship to the local speed of sound.
Reynolds Number
M
Aerospace Engineer
Leading Edge
36. The distance from wing tip to wing tip of a wing planform.
Storyboard
Wing Span
Script
Flaps
37. A straight line parallel to the length of the fuselage but that runs through the aircraft's center of gravity.
Supersonic
Trailing Edge
Rocket
Longitudinal Axis...
38. Aircraft speeds between Mach 5 and 10.
Hypersonic
Reynolds Number
Dynamic Stability
Wing
39. A thin layer of air next to the surface of an airfoil which shows a reduction in speed due to the air's viscosity.
Lift
Script
Storyboard
Boundary Layer
40. Caused by the separation of airflow from the wing's upper surface resulting in a rapid decrease in lift.
Stall
Drag
Thrust
Sailplane
41. Aircraft speeds between Mach 10 and 25.
Dynamic Stability
Powerplant
High hypersonic
Wing Planform
42. A rear horizontal stabilizer that controls up and down or pitching motion of the aircraft nose.
Aspect Ratio
Jingle
Space Shuttle
Elevator
43. The tail assembly of an aircraft - including the horizontal and vertical stabilizers - elevators and rudder.
Dihedral
Rudder
Empennage
Maneuverability
44. The study or practice of travel through the air.
Weight
Aeronautics
Keel Effect
Static Stability
45. Forward- acting force which opposes drag and propels the aircraft through the air.
Stall
Airfoil
Thrust
Cockpit
46. A short - easily- remembered slogan - verse - or tune.
Aerospace
Helicopter
Jingle
Hot Air Balloon
47. 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.
Flaps
Yaw
Stability
Roll
48. The rate at which temperature decreases with an increase in altitude.
Aerospace Engineer
Wash In/Wash Out
Pitch
Lapse Rate
49. Aircraft speeds between Mach 1 and 5.
Aeronautics
Rocket
Supersonic
Trailing Edge
50. The common reference point for the three axes of the aircraft.
Center of Gravity
Elevator
Aeronautics
Yaw