Fuel Metering
What is Stoichiometric mixture?
This part of an oil system helps cool the oil.
What is the oil cooler?
Cooling air in a gas turbine engine.
What is secondary air?
As the speed of a moving fluid—such as air at subsonic speeds—increases, its pressure and temperature decrease.
What is bernoulli's principle?
This NASA flight went horribly wrong when a failure of o-ring seals occurred in the right solid booster rocket.
What is the Challenger space shuttle?
The part of a carburetor that is located in the throat of the venturi at the point of lowest pressure.
What is the discharge nozzle?
This oil system stores the oil in a separate tank connected to the engine.
What is a dry-sump system?
These provide a means of transferring the cylinder heat to the air.
What are cooling fins?
This FAR explains what is to be included in a maintenance logbook entry.
What is FAR 43.9?
This president signed into law the Federal Aviation Act of 1958.
Who is Eisenhower?
Needle-type and Back-suction are 2 types of this in a carburetor.
What is the mixture control system?
Screen, Cuno, Air-maze, and automotive-style cans are all examples of this.
What is an oil filter?
The hottest spot in a gas turbine engine.
What is the 1st stage turbine nozzle diaphragm?
An object will float if this upward force of the fluid of the fluid is greater than the weight of the object.
What is buoyant force?
This is the largest wooden aircraft ever built.
What is the "Spruce Goose" (Hughes H-4 Hercules)?
This type of fuel mixture burns more slowly.
What is a lean mixture?
Solid residue remaining when oils undergo severe oxidative and thermal breakdown at extreme temperatures.
What are coke deposit?
These make a low-pressure area at the end of the exhaust to help facilitate cooling.
What are augmentors?
This form of energy is only produced by the conversion of one of the other forms of energy. Also defined as the total kinetic energy of the molecules of any substance.
What is heat?
This is the first rudimentary steam-powered jet engine developed by Hero of Alexandria in the 1st century AD.
What is the Aeolipile?
This part of a carburetor measures the amount of air flowing through the carburetor.
What is the venturi?
This regulator utilizes a Wheatstone bridge circuit.
What is the oil temperature regulator?
If the temperature inside of a recip engine is too great, these 3 things can result.
What are detonation, pre-ignition, and backfiring?
This FAR covers the certification of mechanics.
What is FAR 65 subpart D?
During the US Civil War, these were used as the first aviation equipment.
What are hydrogen ballons?