Parts of an aircraft
This is the aviation term describing the tail section of an aircraft.
What is the empennage?
His theorem states that all energy within a system must remain constant.
Who is Bernoulli?
This is movement about the lateral axis.
What is pitch?
Name the forces forces acting on an aircraft in flight.
What are weight, lift, thrust and drag?
In a spin the airspeed remains ____ and ____
What are low and constant?
Name one of the two landing gear configurations used on modern aircraft.
What is tail-wheel/ tricycle?
The faster moving the air, the _____ the air pressure.
What is lower?
What is longitudinal or roll stability?
An aircraft in steady movement is said to be in this state.
What is equilibrium?
An aircraft will always stall when this angle of attack is reached.
What is the critical angle of attack?
This is the control surface attached to horizontal stabilizer.
What are the elevators?
This is the aviation term describing the curvature of a wing or an airfoil.
What is camber?
This is defined as the tendency of an aircraft to remain in straight, level and upright flight and to return to this attitude is displaced without corrective action
What is stability?
If weight is greater than lift, an aircraft will ______.
What is descend?
As the airfoil nears stall, the center of pressure moves in this direction.
What is forward?
This is the ratio between an aircraft's wingspan and its average chord.
What is aspect ratio?
This is the type of drag produced by lift-producing parts of an airframe.
What is induced drag?
Due to the change in the plane of gyroscopic controls, this phenomenon causes the aircraft to yaw left.
What is precession?
What is the center of gravity?
True or false: In a spiral dive, an aircraft is stalled.
False
This is the imaginary line running between the leading edge and trailing edge of the wing.
What is the chord?
As the downgoing aileron produces more lift and more induced drag than the upgoing aileron, it causes this phenomenon, turning the aircraft to one side.
What is adverse yaw?
If the right aileron moves down and the left aileron moves up, this is the direction the aircraft will bank.
What is left?
True or false: An aircraft on the ground is in equilibrium.
False
True or false: A steeper angle of bank increases the stalling speed of an aircraft.
True