Fixed vs Rotary Wing Aircraft
The type of aircraft relies on wings that do not move to generate lift?
What is a fixed-wing aircraft?
The system that alerts pilots to potential terrain collisions.
What is the Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System (EGPWS)?
The career that requires an A&P License.
What is an Aircraft Maintenance Technician?
Name the four main forces acting on an aircraft during flight.
What are lift, weight, thrust, and drag?
Which axis controls yaw and the mechanism?
What are the vertical (Y) axis, rudder?
The two brothers credited with the first successful powered flight.
Who are the Wright brothers Orville and Wilbur?
The science and art of flight through the atmosphere.
What is Aeronautics?
This type of aircraft can hover and take off vertically?
What is a rotary-wing aircraft?
The most common maintenance checks performed on aircraft.
What is the A, B, C, D and Flight checks?
The educational requirement that is typically needed to become a pilot.
What is a commercial pilot’s license?
The wings shape that creates a pressure difference that generates lift.
What is Bernoulli’s Principle?
Which axis controls roll and the mechanism?
What is the Longitudinal axis, ailerons?
The significant event in aviation that occurred in 1903
What is the first successful controlled airplane flight?
The study of gases in motion.
What is Aerodynamics?
Name one example of a fixed-wing aircraft.
What is a Boeing 727, 737, 747, 757, 767, Airbus A320, A310, A330, Embraer
The importance safety in aviation careers.
What is to protect passengers, crews, and ensure flight reliability?
The kind of technician that specializes in aircraft electrical systems.
What is an Aircraft Electrician (Wire chaser)?
The force that pushes the aircraft forward,
What is Thrust?
The axis & mechanism that controls pitch.
What are the Lateral (Z) axis, and the elevators?
The pilot that was first to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic in 1927.
Who was Charles Lindbergh?
The standard pressure at sea level.
What is → 14.7 psi / 29.92 in Hg?
The primary function of the rotor blades in a helicopter.
What is to generate lift?
The function of the crumple zones in aircraft safety?
What is how they absorb energy during an impact to protect passengers?
The primary focus of an Avionics Technician.
What are the aircraft's electronic systems (Radar, navigation, Flight controls, etc.)?
The role of flaps during takeoff and landing.
What increases the lift and drag to facilitate safe takeoffs and landings?
Nose moves up and down on the Lateral axis.
what is Pitch? What are the elevators?
The importance of the Giffard Dirigible in aviation history.
What is one of the first successful airships, demonstrating controlled flight?
The temperature change every 1,000 feet gained in altitude.
What is → Drops ~3.5°F?
Compare the speed and range of fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft.
What are the Fixed-wing aircraft typically fly faster and cover longer distances than rotary-wing aircraft?
The role of avionics maintenance in aircraft operation.
What is to ensure the functionality and compliance of electronic systems?
The primary responsibilities of a Maintenance Manager in aviation.
Who is the oversite for all maintenance operations and ensure regulatory compliance?
This happens when drag is greater than thrust.
What is when the plane slows down.
Tilting wings up or down.
what is Roll?
The DC-4 (C-54) is considered innovative for its time compared to its predecessor DC-3 (C-47)?
The speed of sound at 59°F.
What is 761 mph?