Components
Atmosphere
Physics of Flight
Abbreviations
miscellaneous
100
This component is where passengers, cargo, pilots, and instrumentation is found.
What is the fuselage?
100
The level of the atmosphere you are currently in.
What is the troposphere?
100
Upon landing a plane the Lift is equal to this.
What is weight?
100
NASA
What is National Aeronautics and Space Administration?
100
Human beings have 840 of these in their entire body, while elephants have 40,000 of them in their trunk only.
What are muscles?
200
t\This is used to control the roll aspect of aircraft flight.
What is/are ailerons?
200
These are found between each "sphere" level of the atmosphere.
What is a pause?
200
It is only under this condition that we can assume thrust = drag.
What is constant velocity? ( no acceleration )
200
NTSB
What is the National Transportation Safety Board?
200
This NFL team is the only one to win the Super Bowl back to back two different times.
Who are the Pittsburgh Steelers?
300
This provides thrust for the aircraft and can be found in a pusher or tractor configuration.
What is the powerplant?
300
This is the standard atmospheric pressure according to the metric system. (include units)
What is 101.3 kPa?
300
The unit of Newtons are made up of this combination of other units.
What are kg * m/s^2 ?
300
ATC
What is Air Traffic Control?
300
This kind of rock, whose name comes from the Latin word for fire and rock, is formed from cooling magma or lava.
What is Igneous?
400
You will find the rudder attached the this component of the empennage.
What is the vertical stabilizer?
400
The rate at which atmospheric temperature decreases with increase in altitude.
What is the lapse rate?
400
According to this principle, in a closed system with no change in temperature, Pressure1*Velocity1 = Pressure2*Velocity2
What is Bernoulli's Principle?
400
FAA
What is Federal Aviation Administration?
400
More than any other languages, scientific material has been printed in these two languages.
What is English and Russian
500
These minor components are found on flaps, ailerons, elevators and rudders. They allow for minor changes to be made and require less input from the pilot over the course of a flight.
What is a trim tab?
500
The level you would be in at 40,000 meters.
What is the stratosphere?
500
This describes air's tendency to "stick" to the surface of a wing inducing a reaction force of lift.
What is the coanda effect?
500
NACA
What is the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics?
500
These were Pixar's first two successful feature films, released in 1995 and 1998.
What are "Toy Story" and "A Bug's Life"