Airplanes
Houses the cabin and flight deck.
What is the fuselage?
Attached to the back of the vertical stabilizer. It creates aerodynamic forces that move the nose of the aircraft left or right (yaw).
What is the rudder?
Landing gear with a rear mounted wheel.
What is conventional landing gear or tailwheel?
This includes the engine and propeller in small airplanes.
What id the powerplant section?
Must be displayed in a location where passengers can see it.
What is an airworthiness certificate?
This design uses formers, bulkhead and stringers.
What is Semi-monocoque?
Attached on the inner portion of the wing. When extended they increase the wings lift for takeoff and landing.
What are the flaps?
Landing gear with two main gear(wheels) and one nose wheel.
What is tricycle landing gear?
This protects the aircraft occupants and serves as a mounting point for the engine.
What is the firewall?
Acronym used to verify required documents are on board the airplane.
What is ARROW? Airworthiness, Registration, Radio Station Class License, Operating Limitations, Weight and Balance Data.
Typically consists of vertical stabilizer, horizontal stabilizer, and the elevator.
What is the empennage?
Attached to the back of the horizontal stabilizer. When moved, allows the airplanes nose to pitch up or down.
What is the elevator?
The wheels of an airplane are attached to the aircraft structure using these and that absorb shock of landing and taxing over rough ground.
What are struts?
This encloses the engine compartment which streamlines the airplane and increases engine cooling effectiveness by ducting air around the cylinders.
What is the engine cowling?
Where you can find most pertinent information about a particular make and model of airplane and must be accessible to the pilot in flight.
What is the POH (Pilot Operating Handbook)?
Air flows around these and generates lift, which is essential for flight.
What are the wings?
Small hinged devices attached to the trailing edge of one or more control surfaces and help minimize pilot workload.
What are trim tabs?
Typical training airplanes use these and can be applied by pressing on the top of each rudder pedal.
What are disc brakes?
Mounted on the front of the engine, translates rotational force of the engine into a forward acting force called thrust.
What is the propeller?
Time frame used for most inspections and certificates experation.
What is calendar month?
Located on the outside portion of the each wing, normally connected to the control wheel by chains, cables, bell cranks, and pulleys. When moving the control wheel, these move in opposite directions creating aerodynamic forces that roll the airplane.
What are the ailerons?
A one piece horizontal stabilizer used on some empennage designs.
What is a stabilator?
Using this technique can help steer the airplane while taxiing.
What is differential braking?
The primary function of the engine.
What is providing power to turn the propeller?
Published by the FAA when an unsafe condition might exist or develop in an aircraft because of a design defect, maintenance or another cause.
What is an airworthiness directive (AD)?