Name that Plane
Open slide 12.
What is the Boeing 737 Max?
This is the full name represented by the acronym AIAA.
What is the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics?
This force pushes a rocket forward as high-speed exhaust leaves the engine.
What is thrust?
This is the advisor of Vigrinia Tech's Student Branch of AIAA.
Who is Dr. Gary Seidel?
In Top Gun, this is the aircraft that Maverick flies.
What is the F-14 Tomcat?
Open slide 13.
What is the Space Shuttle?
AIAA officially began operating in this year after two aerospace organizations merged.
What is 1963?
When an aircraft exceeds this dimensionless speed ratio, it is traveling faster than the local speed of sound.
What is Mach 1?
This is the full name of the aerospace/ocean engineering department at Virginia Tech.
What is Kevin T. Crofton Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering?
Hidden Figures follows three women who worked for this U.S organization during the space race.
What is NASA?
Open slide 14.
What is the F-22 Raptor?
This is the name of AIAA's annual student competition.
What is Design, Build, Fly (DBF)?
Increasing an aircraft's angle of attack generally increases this aerodynamic coefficient until the aircraft reaches stall.
What is the coefficient of lift?
The Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 turbofan jet fan is located in this Virginia Tech building.
In Interstellar, the celestial object that is responsible for the extreme gravitational time dilation experienced by the astronauts.
What is a black hole?
Open slide 15.
What is SR-71 Blackbird?
This is the kind of organization AIAA is considered.
What is a professional technical society for the aerospace community?
A spacecraft in low Earth orbit is technically falling toward Earth, but it doesn't hit the surface because its horizontal velocity causes it to continually fall around the curvature of Earth.
What is orbital free fall?
This Virginia Tech facility allows students and researchers to experimentally investigate aerodynamic forces and flow around models.
What is the Stability Wind Tunnel?
In The Martian, Mark Watney uses this to communicate with NASA.
What is the Pathfinder spacecraft?
Open slide 16.
What is the B-2 Spirit?
AIAA was formed by the merger of these two organizations; one was the American Rocket Society and the other was this organization.
What is the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences?
This aerodynamic phenomenon becomes increasingly significant as an aircraft approaches the speed of sound and can be reduced by sweeping the wings backward.
What is compressibility?
This Virginia Tech alumni became NASA's first flight director and played a role in the first U.S. human spaceflight, first orbital flight, first spacewalk, and first Moon landing.
Who is Christopher Kraft Jr.?
In Project Hail Mary, this is the organism that absorbs the Sun's energy, causing Earth's temperatures to drop.
What is Astrophage?