Wing Design
The linear distance between wingtips.
What is a Wingspan?
The only pitot-static instrument that is hooked up to the pitot tube.
What is an ASI?
This type of fuel system does not contain a fuel pump and places the fuel tanks above the engine.
What is a Gravitational-Feed Fuel System?
The lines which run North-to-South and are numbered from 0-180 Deg.
What is a line of Longitude?
The number one material used in the aerospace industry
What is Aluminium?
Straight, Tapered, Delta, Elliptical
What are types of Planform?
The flight instrument which uses a horizontally mounted gyroscope.
What is an Attitude Indicator/Artificial Horizon?
This type of propellor is commonly found on small aircraft and the pitch of the propeller is unchangeable.
What is a Fixed-Pitch Propeller?
These types of geographical lines are numbered only from 0-90 deg.
What is a line of Latitude?
Canada's first satellite to reach orbit in 1962.
What is the Alouette 1?
The device which extends from the upper surface of a wing and destroys lift.
What is a Spoiler?
These instruments will be affected by a blockage of the aircraft's static pressure source.
What is the Altimeter, ASI, and VSI?
This device uses a venturi tube, float chamber, and mixture needle to atomize the fuel particles into the airflow.
What is a carburetor?
The angular difference, denoted on maps, between the True North Pole and the Magnetic North Pole.
What is Magnetic Variation?
The innovative Canadian tool which was used to build the International Space Station.
What is the Canadarm2?
A movable device extending from the leading edge of a wing.
What is a Slat?
A type of gyroscopic error caused by the rotation of the earth beneath the aircraft.
What is Apparent Precession?
The engine instrument which displays the revolutions per minute of the engine's crankshaft.
What is a Tachometer?
This line of latitude is both a Great Circle Route and a Rhumb Line.
What is the equator?
The Canadian astronaut who has logged the most number of days in space.
Who is Robert Thirsk?
A device which is used to increase the camber of a wing while in flight.
What are Flaps?
Breaking the glass of this instrument will restore functionality when the primary and secondary static sources are blocked.
What is a VSI?
The process by which a propellor's pitch is increased to directly align with an aircraft's flight path in order to reduce aerodynamic drag on a dead engine.
What is Feathering?
One Nautical Mile, equalling 6080 ft.
What is a minute of Latitude?
For future astronauts on Mars: this wonder-molecule will be used as a means to shield astronauts from harmful stellar radiation; it will also become a source of rocket fuel, used to generate electricity, and a means to create breathable air and drinkable water.
What is H2O?