Parts & Forces on a Plane
The four forces acting on a plane
What is "Lift, Drag, Thrust, and Weight"?
What is "when the angle of attack of the wing is increased too much"?
What is "increase lift and drag / reduce the stalling speed of an aircraft wing at a given weight"?
Two types of g-forces
What is "linear acceleration and centripetal force"?
The two types of drag
What is "parasite and induced"?
Explains that an aircraft can achieve lift because the shape of its wings
What is "Bernoulli's principle"?
Name of the angle at which stalling occurs
What is "critical angle of attack"
Fill in the blank: Flaps are used to reduce the _______ distance and the ______ distance
What is "take-off, landing"?
Define wingtip vortice
What is "Circular patterns of rotating air left behind a wing as it generates lift"?
Fill in the blank: _______ drag is all the drag independent of Lift. _______ drag is formed due to Lift.
What is "parasite, induced"?
Components of the power plant on a plane
What is "engine, propellers, etc."?
Normal angle and critical angle of attack values
What is "2-5 degrees for normal and 15 degrees for critical"?
The five types of flaps
What is "plain, split, slotted, fowler, and double-slotted-fowler"?
What is "wake turbulence"?
What is "form drag and skin friction drag"?
The reduced aerodynamic drag that an aircraft’s wings generate when they are close to a fixed surface
What is "ground effect"?
Caused by stalling and can lead to loss of control
What is "increased air resistance and decreased lift"?
Flap located on the underside of the wing that produces an increase in lift and/or drag
What is "split flap"?
Equations to find linear acceleration and centripetal force
What is "g=dv/dt & g=v^2/r"?
How induced drag is formed
What is "by the passage of an aerofoil through the air"?
What is "fuselage, wings, empennage, power plant, and landing gear"?
Fill in the blank: If an aircraft flies _____, it will require a _______ angle of attack to generate sufficient ___, if this angle hits the critical point, stalling occurs.
What is "slower, greater, lift"?
A split flap that slides rearwards level for a distance prior to hanging downwards
What is "fowler flap"?
Fill in the blank: [Wingtip vortices] are associated with ______ ___ and are a fundamental consequence of three-dimensional __ ________.
What is "induced drag, lift generation"?
Fill in the blank: (Induced Drag) Air flowing over the __ of a wing tends to flow inwards because the decreased pressure over the __ surface is ___ than the pressure outside the wing tip.
What is "top, top, less"?