Navajo PoH
Aerodynamics
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Icing
Aviation Movie Quotables
100

This is the usable fuel capacity of one inboard wing tank.

What is 53 Gallons?

100

These devices add energy to the boundary layer.

What are vortex generators?

100

This transponder code is used to indicate radio communication difficulties with ATC.

What is 7600?

100

For this type of a stall, the recovery may involve pulling back on the yoke and raising the flaps.

What is a tailplane stall?

100

"Houston, we have a problem."

What is Apollo 13?

200

106 knots puts you at this V speed.

What is Vyse?

200

This 18th century mathematician, in his book Hydrodynamica, described the relationship between a fluid's speed and its pressure.

Who is Daniel Bernoulli?

200

This light gun signal tells an aircraft in the air to continue circling and give way to other aircraft.

What is steady red?

200

The process by which ice will transition directly from a solid to a gaseous state.

What is sublimation?

200

"Don't call me Shirley"

What is Airplane?

300

This is the total fuel capacity in one outboard wing tank.

What is 40 gallons?

300

The imaginary straight line connecting the leading edge to the trailing edge of an airfoil.

What is the chord line?

300

The four-letter acronym used to describe route priority during lost communication.

What is AVE F?

300

Abbreviated as SLDs, they have a diameter greater than 50 microns.

What are Supercooled Large Droplets?

300

"Because I was inverted."

What is Top Gun?

400

128 knots puts you at this V speed.

What is Vlo?

400

This type of drag is caused by the interaction of multiple distinct boundary layers as they flow over intersecting parts of the aircraft.

What is interference drag?

400

A signal gun alternating red and green light tells an aircraft to do this.

What is exercise extreme caution?

400

This is the temperature range in which rime structural icing is most likely to be found.

What is -15 to -20C?

400

"No bucks, no buck rogers."

What is The Right Stuff?

500

The approximate number of seconds that one gallon of fuel provides in normal cruise flight.

What is 90?

500

The spanwise upward inclination of a wing relative to the horizontal plane.

What is dihedral?

500

This light gun signal tells an aircraft on the ground to return to its starting point on the airport.

What is flashing white?

500

Another name for the natural material particles such as plant matter, bacteria, clay, or dust that liquid cloud droplets can use as the catalyst for ice formation.

What are Ice Nuclei?

500

"Come in with the milk."

What is The Aviator?