Fly-by-Wire and "Glass" Cockpits
The devices that replace the instrument "six-pack" in a glass cockpit.
What are digital displays?
The term used when a pilot navigate under visual flight rules (VFR) by finding visual reference points.
What is pilotage?
An example of a non-aviation composite material.
What are concrete, polyester, or anything in which two or more different materials are combined to make a better, usually stronger material?
The reason why the government has turned to private industry to support space exploration
What is because it has become too expensive for the government to fund alone.
Three of the six flight instruments found in the flight instrument "six-pack"
What are the altimeter, airspeed indicator, turn-and-bank indicator, directional gyro, VSI, and artificial horizon?
The instrument that tells the pilot the aircraft altitude.
What is the altimeter?
The aviation "map" or chart that is commonly used for visual navigation.
What is a VFR Sectional Chart?
Two reasons why composite materials are used in aviation.
What are they are lightweight, durable, flexible, resilient and strong?
The term commonly used to refer to the competition between companies vying for success in space exploration.
What is "The New Space Race?"
What are road maps?
This aviation technology translates a pilot's movements into electronic signals that then manipulate the flight control surfaces.
What is fly-by-wire?
A drawback of using GPS for navigation.
What is it relies solely on satellites?
Composite materials must be able to withstand large fluctuations in these two conditions.
What temperature, pressure and G-forces? (need two of these three answers)
The greatest benefit of reusing components such as rockets in space exploration.
What is that it is more cost effective (it saves money)?
VFR stands for this.
What is Visual Flight Rules?
This flight instrument gives the pilot information about the rate of change of the heading of the aircraft.
What is the turn-and-bank indicator?
The navigation system that allows aircraft to be tracked at lower altitudes than radar.
What is ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast)
Delamination, high cost, and hard to repair.
What are some disadvantages to the use of composite materials in aviation?
One of the challenges to success faced by private space industries.
What are the cost, the danger/risk, or the need to successfully develop new technologies?
On a VFR Sectional Chart, the color used to depict an airport that has a control tower.
What is blue?
The flight instrument that indicates the aircraft heading.
What is the directional gyro?
The equipment developed after WWII to help pilots navigate and know their distance from electronic checkpoints.
What is Very High Frequency Omnidirectional Range (VOR) Navigation
The largest part of an modern airliner that is made from composite materials.
What is the fuselage?
A company that is used to deliver materials to the International Space Station.
What is SpaceX, or Northrup Grumman?
The color of a VFR sectional chart that indicates higher terrain elevation.
What is tan or brown?