an electrical generator that produces power when rotated.
What is a magneto?
100
The first layer of the atmosphere; where most weather occurs.
What is the Trophosphere?
100
first man to walk on the moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
100
measure of the brightness of a star.
What is magnitude?
200
the curved part of an airfoil from its leading to trailing edge.
What is the camber?
200
a ratio of fuel to air in which, upon combustion, all of the fuel is burned (In energy
terms, it is 15 parts air to 1 part gasoline.)
What is stoichiometric?
200
Composition of the atmosphere.
What is 78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen, and 1% other gases?
200
the movement or path a satellite takes around a celestial
body.
What is an orbit?
200
small gravity levels or low gravity; floating condition.
What is microgravity?
300
The three axis of an aircraft.
What are longitudinal, lateral, and vertical?
300
When the airplane levels off at a given altitude, and the
pressure stabilizes, another instrument reads this as zero.
What is a Vertical Velocity Indicator (VVI)?
300
White, puffy clouds; fair weather clouds, indicating good weather.
What are Cumulus clouds?
300
developed the technique of spin stabilization.
Who is William Hale?
300
unit of measurement used to measure distances in our solar system.
What is an astronomical unit (AU)?
400
Bernoulli's Principle.
What is a decrease in pressure and an increase in velocity?
400
___ provides obstruction clearance within 10° of the extended runway centerline, and to 4 nautical miles from the runway threshold. A ___ consists of light units arranged in bars.
What is Visual Approach Slope Indicator?
400
global winds that move toward the poles and appear to curve to the east.
What is prevailing westerlies?
400
occurred in July 1975 and involved a linkup in space of American and soviet manned spacecraft.
What was the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project?
400
Distance from the Sun to Earth.
What is 93 million miles/1 AU?
500
Hydrogen Gas Balloon's lift rate.
What is 60 lbs. of lift per 1,000 cu. ft?
500
The Phoentic alphabet.
What is Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, India, Juliet, Kilo, Limo, Mike, November, Papa, Quebec, Romeo, Sierra, Tango, Uniform, Victor, Whiskey, Xray, Yankee, Zulu.
500
Relative Humidity.
What is amount of water vapor in the air compared to its water vapor capacity at a given
temperature?
500
Newton's 2nd Law of Motion.
What is "the rate of change in the momentum of a body is proportional to the force acting upon the body and is in the direction of the force." (will not accept F=MA)?
500
Temperatures of the Moon during night and day (individually).
What is 250* F during the day, and -250* F at night?