Turbines
The air entrance to a gas turbine engine.
What are the air inlet guide vanes?
The horizontal distance from the datum to any point within the aircraft.
What is an arm?
This fuel is blue in color.
What is 100LL?
Current flows from negative to positive in this theory.
What is electron flow theory?
When an aircraft conforms to all its type certificates.
What is Airworthy?
These are the 2 elements of a centrifugal-flow compressor.
What are the impeller and diffuser?
The point at which all the weight of an aircraft is concentrated and balanced.
What is the Center of Gravity?
These fuels are kerosene based.
What is Jet A and Jet A-1?
When a conductor is moved through the lines of flux that pass between the poles of a magnet, a flow of electrons is induced in the conductor.
What is electromagnetic induction?
This is the governing body of civil aviation in the US.
What is the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)?
The hot section of a gas turbine engine.
The max allowable gross weight minus the empty weight on an aircraft.
What is the Useful Load?
This is the ability of a liquid to change into a gas at a relatively low temperature.
What is volatility?
Materials that oppose the movement of electrons.
What are insulators?
This US Military base is a highly classified base where experimental planes are tested for military use.
What is Area 51?
This type of duct is used for supersonic flight to reduce the air speed to a subsonic speed.
What is a convergent-divergent duct?
6.7 lbs/gallon is the standard weight of this liquid.
What is turbine fuel?
Use of filters, separators, and screens removes most of this.
What is contamination?
Current flow that continually changes its value and reverses direction.
What is Alternating Current (AC)?
The name of the Boeing B-29 used to deliver a nuclear payload to the Japanese city of Hiroshima in World War II.
What is the Enola Gay?
The measure of thrust in a turbofan and turbojet engine.
What is Engine Pressure Ratio (EPR)?
This is used in an aircraft to attain the desired CG balance when the CG is not within limits or is not at the desired location.
What is a ballast?
This substance will take 2 forms in fuel: dissolved and free.
What is water?
A device that stores electrical energy in the electrostatic fields made by 2 conductors separated by a dielectric.
What is a capacitor?
The first aircraft to fly under turbojet power.
What is the Heinkel He 178?