Engines/Powerplants
The process of combining fuel and air to produce energy
What is combustion
Records the altitude of the aircraft
What is an altimeter
The section of the atmosphere that airliners fly at
What is the stratosphere
Helps produce more lift during takeoff
What are flaps
Where the pilot is located in the aircraft
What is a cockpit
An engine that brings its own oxygen as supposed to using a compressor
What is a rocket engine
Adjusts the fuel-air mixture
The mixture control
The section of the atmosphere closest to sea level
What is the troposphere
The control surface that controls the roll of the aircraft
What are ailerons
An unpowered aircraft
What is a glider
The kind of engine that an airliner uses
What is a turbofan
provides a reference to Level the aircraft to
What is an artificial horizon
Measures air pressure
what is a barometer
The control surface that controls the yaw of the aircraft
What is a rudder
The process of moving an aircraft along the runway/flightline
What is taxiing?
The component of a jet engine required for combustion that isn’t the fuel injector
What is a compressor
Indicates how fast the aircraft is climbing
Vertical speed indicator
Phenomenon created by solar radiation interacting with earths magnetosphere
What is an aurora
The control surface that controls the pitch of the aircraft
What is an elevator
The process of giving directions to an aircraft via hand/arm signals
Aircraft marshalling
An engine that only requires the forward motion of air for combustion
What is a ramjet
Indicates engine speed in rpm
What is a tachometer
The current of air that flows from west to east
What is the jet stream
A pair of control surfaces located near the nose that control pitch and roll featured on some aircraft
What are canards