Women's pilot organization whose name reflects the number of original members.
What are the Ninety-Nines?
100
Any reaction creates an opposite and equal reaction.
What is Newton's Third Law?
100
The affect that spins the Helicopter opposite the direction of spin of the Rotor Blades.
What is Torque?
100
1. Intake 2. Compression 3. combustion 4. Exhaust
What are the four stages of a Jet engine?
100
The outer casing of an engine.
What is the Crankcase?
200
The imaginary line between the leading and trailing edge of the airfoil.
What is the Chord Line?
200
The law that states the current that flows in a curcuit is directly porportional to the voltage that causes it, and inversly porportional to the resistance in the curcuit.
What is Ohms Law?
200
The control that turns the aircraft around its vertical axis.
What are the Pedals?
200
"flying stovepipe"- Jet engine without any turbines.
What is Ram Jet
200
The rotating shaft that is turned by the connecting rods.
What is the Crankshaft?
300
An airfoil that has unequal upper and lower cambers.
What is an A Symmetrical Airfoil?
300
Equation used to calculate weight and balance.
What is Arm*Weight=Moment?
300
The term of a helicopter flying to the ground due to engine or power failure.
What is autorotation?
300
The term for a turbine that is mechanically seperated from the other turbines.
What is the Free Turbine?
300
1. Intake 2. Compression 3. Combustion 4. Exhuast
What are the four strokes of a reciprocating engine?
400
The angle between the chord line and the relative wind.
What is the Angle of attack?
400
Two different types of electrical current.
What are AC and DC?
400
The effect which tends to flip the aircraft when there is wind relative to the rotor blades.
What is advancing Blade concept?
400
The number equal to the speed of the aircraft divided by the speed of sound.
What is Mach number?
400
The rotating shaft that controls the valves opening and closing.
What is the Camshaft?
500
The angle between the chordline of the fuselage and the chord line of the wing.
What is Angle of Incedence?
500
Gases of higher pressure tend to equalize with gases of lower pressure by flowing to the area of low pressure.
What is Bernoulli's Principle?
500
Effect the helicopter has while hovering to drift top the side.
What is Lateral drift tendancy?
500
The component that directly injects fuel into the exhuast for additional thrust.