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Any part of the airplane that is designed to produce lift.
What is an airfoil?
100
The "control room" from which a pilot flies an airplane.
What is the cockpit or flight deck?
100
Engine system where the heat source for combustion is located outside the engine.
What is an external combustion engine?
100
This person discovered the three laws of motion.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
100
ICBM is the acronym for this type of nuclear missile.
What is an intercontinental ballistic missile?
200
This person discuvered that as the velocity of a fluid increases, its internal pressure decreases.
Who is Bernoulli?
200
Lowering flaps causes these two things to happen.
What is increase in lift and increase in drag.
200
An aircraft propulsion system featuring a propeller driven by a gas turbine.
What is a turboprop?
200
Propellants that use both liquid and solid propellants in the same engine.
What are hybrid propellants?
200
SLBM is the acronym for this type of nuclear missile.
What is a submarine launched ballistic missile?
300
The force opposed to thrust.
What is drag?
300
Cause roll around the longitudinal axis.
What are ailerons?
300
An organic compound containing only carbon and hydrogen.
What is a hydrocarbon?
300
Rocket engines are based on this person's three laws of motion.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
300
The history of rocketry began in this country.
What is China?
400
The altitude limit that an aircraft can fly at.
What is the ceiling?
400
The devices destroy lift when they are deployed
What are spoilers?
400
The exertion of force over a given distance.
What is work?
400
Since rocket engines are not designed to be air-breathers, they are best suited for this environment.
What is space?
400
The major airline manufacturer that competes with the Boeing Aircraft Company.
What is Airbus?
500
The angle formed by the chord of the airfoil and direction of relative wind.
What is angle of attack?
500
This is used before flight to ensure that all aircraft systems are working normally
What is pre-takeoff checklist?
500
In this situation, the nose of the airplane starts dropping even though the control wheel is in the full back position/
What is a stall?
500
A celestial body that orbits another of larger size.
What is a satellite?
500
The best Air Force pilot ever.
Who is Lt Col Long?