Components starting with 'c'
Types of engines
Terms and definitions
General Cadet Knowledge
200

The main component where the combustion of the gasoline and air mix takes place

What is the cylinder

200
This engine had a stationary crankshaft with the cylinders rotating around the crankshaft

What is the rotary engine

200

This word means "to turn around an axis"

What is rotary

200

The second highest rank in the air cadet program

What is Warrant Officer Second Class

400

As the piston drives up and down, the connecting rod rotates around this component.

What is the crankshaft

400

This engine had stationary cylinders arranged around the rotating crankshaft

What is the radial engine

400

This word means "to move up and down"

What is reciprocating

400
The motto of the air cadet program

What is "to learn, to serve, to advance"

600

Attaches the piston to the crankshaft with bearings allowing up and down movement of the piston to turn into spinning movement of the crankshaft

What is the connecting rod
600

This engine has two banks of cylinders lying flat, directly opposed of each other working on the same crankshaft

What is the Horizontally opposed engine

600

A force that opposed the aircraft's movement through the air

What is form drag

600

142 Mimico Determination squadron founded on this day

What is July 2nd, 1942

800

The crankshaft often turns this second shaft

What is the camshaft

800

This engine has cylinders that are lined up in a row from front to back, tops pointed up

What is the in-line engine

800

The process of burning the air-gasoline mix in an engine

What is combustion

800

When tagging, you are required to take these amounts of shifts

What is 3

1000

Before fuel is delivered to the cylinder for detonation, it is mixed with air in exact proportion in this component

What is the carburetor

1000

This engine consists of two cylinder banks connected to a common crankshaft. These cylinder banks are arranged at an angle to each other forming a letter of the alphabet.

What is the v-type engine

1000

Arranged like the radii of a circle, relating to an engine

What is radial

1000

When a cadet retires from 142, they receive this item

What is a mug