OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS

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1) The bulkhead used to separate the nacelle from the cockpit is

1) Firewall
2) Bulkhead
3) Insulator
4) Pylon
2) A wing of box beam design construction to allow it to be used as fuel tank when properly sealed is referred as
1) Aeroplane wing
2) Gull wing
3) Fuel tank
4) Wet wing
3) Which condition of flight control balance is indicated by plus (+) sign
1) Dynamic balance
2) Aerodynamic balance3) Over balance 4) Under balancing
4) The high lift devices used in an aircraft
1) Flaps & boundary layer control
2) Slats & slots
3) Vortex generator & flaps
4) Flap, slat, slot & boundary layer
5) The yawing of aircraft is controlled by
1) Rudder and its motion around longitudinal
2) Elevator and its motion around vertical axis
3) Rudder and its motion around lateral axis
4) Rudder and its motion around normal axis
6) Inspection openings and access doors are provided usually on the
1) Top surface of the wing
2) Rear top surface of the wing
3) Forward top surface of wing
4) Lower surface of the wing
7) Which type of material is used in high temperature area in fuselage construction
1) Al alloy and steel
2) Mg alloy and titanium
3) Steel and titanium
4) All the above
8) An auxiliary strut that braces main strut is called
1) Jurry strut
2) Drag strut
3) Inter plane strut
4) Cabane strut
9) Which type of rib is used at the in board end of the wing near the attachment point to the fuselage
1) Wing butt rib
2) Compression rib
3) Bulkhead rib
4) All the above
10) The ribs which are placed at appropriate intervals along the wingspan are used to
1) Stabilize the spar against twisting
2) Take bending loads
3) Acts as fastener to hold the aero foil shape
4) Both (1) & (3)
11) When pilot moves the control sticks to the right
1) The port aileron moves up and aircraft banks to starboard side
2) The starboard aileron moves down and aircraft rolls to left side
3) The starboard aileron moves down and aircraft rolls to right side
4) The port aileron moves down and aircraft banks to starboard side
12) Extending the portion of the control surface ahead of the hinge line is
1) Static balancing
2) Aerodynamic balancing
3) Dynamic balancing
4) Static over balancing
13) The control surface used to provide extra lift by increasing the wing camber is referred as
1) Aileron
2) Vortex generator
3) Flap
4) Lift augmentor
14) Servo tab is also called
1) Balance tab
2) Spring tab
3) Flight tab
4) General tab
15) Which of the following tab provide a boost and aid in movement of control surface
1) Anti servo tab
2) Servo tab
3) Balance tab
4) Spring tab
16) Speed brakes are also called
1) Spoilers
2) Speed spoilers
3) dive braker
4) Flight spoiler
17) Elevons is a combination control surface which includes
1) Elevator & flap
2) Elevator & Ailerons 3) Elevator & rudder
4) All of the above
18) any motion of an a/c to the side and downward inside of a turn is called
1) Skid
2) Skid and slip
3) Side slipping
4) yawing
19) In case of large a/c two ailerons are used at high speed which aileron is active
1) Out board aileron
2) In board aileron
3) Both are operated together
4) None of the aileron are operated at high speed

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20) When spoilers are used with aileron for lateral control
1) Both aileron are deflected upward
2) Both side spoilers deflected down ward
3) Spoiler on up aileron side rise with that aileron and on other side remains in faired poration
4) Spoiler on both sides move upward
21) Sweep back wing provide which type of stability
1) Directional stability 2) Longitudinal stability
3) Lateral stability
4) Both 1 & 2
22) Engine mounts are made up of
1) Welded steel tubing
2) Al alloy
3) Forgings of chrome nickel molybdenum steel
4) All
23) Material of firewall
1) Stainless steel
2) As in 1 & inconel
3) As in 2 & titanium 4) AS in 3 & Al-alloy
24) Directional stability is provided by
1) Vertical stabilizer
2) AS in 1 & dorsal fin
3) As in 2 & longer fuselage
4) As in 3 & wing dihedral
25) Mach number is equal to
1) Speed of sound / speed of a body
2) As in 2& it is always grater than 1
3) Speed of a body / speed of sound
4) As in 3 & and is always less than 1
26) Decrease in angle of incidence from root to the tip of a wing is called
1) Wash in
2) Up wash
3) Wash out
4) Down wash
27) Static wicks are generally found at
1) Trailing edge of main plane 2) A/c nose
3) Landing gear
4) Antenna
28) Abnormal occurrences include
1) Heavy or over weight landing
2) As in 1 & damage from jet blast
3) AS in 2 & brust tyre indication
4) AS in 3 & fuel pump & oil pump failure
29) The term combi aircraft means
1) An aircraft that carries a combination of passenger & cargo on the same deck separated by temporary
bulkhead
2) An a/c that carries purpose of both fighter and passenger
3) An a/c which is combination of both piston and jet engine
4. An a/c which combine the facture of afterburner and tercustrevert
30) A beam or member supported at one end and have no external bracing is called
1) Semi cantilever
2) Cantilever
3) Mid cantilever
4) Full cantilever
31) A removal surface or cover placed over or around an aircraft component and especially on an engine is
called
1) Cowl panel
2) Cowling
3) Skin cover
4) Both 1 & 2
32) The cross section shape of the stringers used in the fuselage due to the appearance is also called
1) H section
2) I section
3) Hat section
4) Circular section
33) A structure that primarily seals an area in order to retain cabin pressurization
1) Bulkhead
2) Pressure fairing
3) Web
4) Pressure web
34) The maximum distance, measured parallel to the lateral axis, from tip to tip of a stabilizer or wing is
1) Chord
2) Angle of attack
3) Span
4) Butt line
35) A small wedge fixed to he leading edge of the airfoil which causes the inboard portion of the wing to
stall ahead of the outboard portion is called
1) Differential aileron 2) Fixed spoiler
3) Stall strip
4) Both 2 & 3
36) A rotating shaft is under load, type of stress acts
1) Combination of tension & compression
2) Tension
3) Torsion
4) Stress
37) The major zone used to indicate door of landing gear
1) 800
2) 500
3) 600
4) 700
38) The major zone 800 indicates
1) Right wing
2) Left wing
3) Landing gear
4) Doors

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39) Purpose of stringers

1) Prevent bulging and buckling
2) Stiffens the metal skin
3) Used as fill in
4) All the above
40) The members in the truss type fuselage are capable of carrying
1) Compression loads
2) Tension loads
3) Compression & tension load
4) Shear loads
41)Type of fuselage in which the skin carries all structural stresses
1) Truss
2) Semimonocoque
3) Monocoque
4) All
42) Type of stresses act when two aircraft parts are reiveted
1) Bending
2) Combination of bending & compression
3) Compression
4) Shear
43) What is the most important advantage of semimonoque
1) Presence of stringer
2) More rigid
3) High strength / weight ratio
4) All the above
44) What is used for measurement of height in inches perpendicular from a horizontal plane
1) Butt line
2) Buttock line
3) Fuselage stations
4) Water line
45) Station lines used in wing usually starts1) From wing tip
2) From fuselage 0 station
3) From forward of nose
4) From center line of fuselage
46) Tension is the stress that1) Resists a crushing force
2) Resists a force that tends to pull apart
3) A type of cohesive force
4) All are correct
47) Bending stress is the combination of1) Compression and torsion
2) Compression and tension
3) Tension & shear
4) None
48) Strength of monocoque type fuselage
1) Former & frame caries primary stresses
2) Skin caries primary stresses
3) Bulkhead is the main load carrying member
49) In semi-monocoque type construction, longerons are supplemented by longitudinal member called1) Bulkhead
2) frames and formers
3) Stringers
50) Stringers are manufactured in a variety of shaper by1) Casting
2) Extrusion
3) Forming
4) All are correct
51) Engine nacelle or pod consists of1) Cowling
2) Structural members and firewall
3) Engine mount
4) All are correct
52) At high speed of flight1) Outboard ailerons are locked out of aileron control system
2) Inboard ailerons are locked out of aileron control system
3) Both the ailerons are locked out
4) None
53) The primary control surfaces are1) Aileron, Elevator, and Rudder
2) Aileron, Rudder and trim tabs
3) Flap, elevator and slat
4) 1 & 3 are correct
54) Aileron balance panel1) Reduce the force necessary to position and hold the aileron 2) increase the force necessary
3) Both
4) None
55) When flaps are operated during take-off1) It increases wing camber, changes the airflow providing greater lift
2) It increases the wing area also
3) It can not be used at landing
4) Both 1 & 2 are correct
56) Airflow through the subsonic aero foil, the lower part of aero foils experiences1) Greater pressure, decreased air velocity
2) Decreased pressure increased air velocity
3) Decreases pressure & decreased velocity
4) None

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57) When the angle of attack increases to the angle of maximum lift, the bumble point is reached, known as1) Typical angle
2) Critical angle
3) Reflex angle
58) Aircraft designer fixes center of gravity1) In front of center of pressure for corresponding flight
2) in rear of center of pressure
3) None
59) The ratio between the wing span to wing chord is1) Fineness ratio
2) Aspect ratio
3) L/D ratio
4) None
60) The high lift wings have1) Large positive camber on the upper surface and slight negative camber on lower surface.
2) Large negative camber on the upper surface, and positive camber on lower surface
3) It should have equal camber on both the surfaces
4) None
61) Parasite drag is created by1) Exposed part in the air stream
2) By wing tip vortices
3) Skin friction
62) In a blue print reads Fuselage frame station 120, that particular frame station can be located from the nose taken
as datum1) 120 ft behind the nose of the aircraft
2) 120 inch behind the nose of aircraft
3) 120 cm behind the nose of aircraft
63) Butt line is a1) Measurement of height in inches perpendicular from the horizontal plane
2) Width measurement left or right and parallel to the vertical Centre line
3) Width measurement left or right and perpendicular to the horizontal Centre line
64) Aluminum honeycomb and fiberglass honeycomb sandwich materials are commonly used for construction of1) Wing
2) Stabilizer surfaces
3) Wing span
4) 1 & 2 are correct
65) Shock mount or vibration absorbing rubber cushier are related to1) Wing construction 2) Stabilizer construction
3) engine installation 4) All are correct
66) The movement of an aeroplane about lateral, longitudinal and vertical axis is known as respectively
1) Rolling, Yawing, Pitching
2) Pitching, rolling, Yawing
3) Yawing, Pitching, Rolling
4) Pitching, Yawing, rolling
67) The tab used for same purpose as hydraulic actuator
1) Balance tab
2) Spring tab
3) Servo tab
4) Trim tab
68) In ruddervator, if left movable surface moves down and right movable surface moves up, than the aeroplane
will
1) Move up
2) move down
3) yaw to left
4) yaw to right
69) If the elevator trim tab is moved down
1) The nose of an a/c will tend to yaw towards port
2) The tail of the a/c will tend to move up
3) The trim tab indicator in the cockpit will read nose down.
4) The trim tab indicator in the cockpit will read nose up.
70) The anti drag wire
1) Resist backward force
2) Resist forward force
3) Reduce the drag produced by aircraft structure.
4) Increases the thrust of the engine in the chord direction.
71) Aircraft main jacking points are generally provided on the
1) Leading edge of the wing
2) Trailing edge of the wing
3) Compression rib
4) Under side of the wing spar of each wing
72) In mono spar wing the aileron is attached to
1) Main spar
2) False spar
3) Rear spar
4) AOA

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73) A nose rib is also called and purpose is

1) A false rib and provide strength
2) Leading edge rib and maintain necessary curvature and support
3) A false rib and provide support
4) A false rib and maintain necessary curvature and support
74) Some aircraft uses a movable horizontal surface called as
1) Butterfly
2) V-tail
3) Stabilator
4) Ruddervator
75) Depending upon the desired flight characteristics wings are built in many shapes
1) Tapered leading edge 2) Swept back wing
3) Delta wing
4) All of the above.
76) Aircraft empennage have been designed which combine the function of both vertical and horizontal stabilizer
is called as
1) Butter fly
2) V- tail
3) Stabilator
4) Both 1 & 2.
77) Identify primary structure
1) Wing and tail plane spars
2) Engine mount
3) Portion of aircraft skin wich are highly stressed
4) AOA
78) The difference between the angles of incidence of the main plane and tail plane is known as
1) Dihedral
2) Anhedral
3) Longitudinal dihedral
4) Angle of attack.
79) The particular design of wing for any aircraft depends on
1) Greater lift
2) Flight characteristics 3) Desired speed
4) All the above
80) The advantage of semimonocoque type of fuselage construction over monocoque fuselage construction is
1) Strength \weight ratio high
2) Weight \ strength ratio low
3) As in (1) &does not depends on few members for strength and rigidity
SUBJECTIVE QUESTIONS

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Attempt any 4 Questions-

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01. Write in details on the following fuselage structures (Any 2)1. Truss type of construction
2. Monocoque type
3. Semiminocoque type
02. Briefly describe the following1. Spar with failsafe construction
2. Aileron balance panel
03. Briefly discuss over the following (Any 2)1. Fineness ratio
2. Wing Stall
3. What is angle of incidence and angle of attack and how the angle of attack related to lift and drag.
04. Write short on (Any 2)
1. Longitudinal stability of aircraft
2. Directional stability
3. Lateral stability
05. Write short notes on (Any 2)
1. Engine alignment check
2. Checking incidence
3. Static balance of movable surfaces

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