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1) What is a moment?
a) An increase
b) No affect
c) A decrease
a) Density
b) Pressure
c) Temperature
d) Humidity
5) An aircraft is climbing vertically at a constant airspeed in equilibrium flight. Which of these is true?
6) What is humidity?
7) What is the effect of runway temperature if the airfield static pressure remains constant and density
increases, according to the General Gas Law?
Airplane Terminology
8) What are the 5 major components of an airplane?
11) Yaw is defined as the motion of the longitudinal axis about which axis?
a) Lateral axis
b) Longitudinal axis
c) Vertical Axis
d) Horizon
a) 35’ 3”
b) 33’ 5”
c) 53’ 3”
d) 34’ 4”
a) Elevators
b) Rudder
c) Control stick
d) Ailerons
15) The apparent surface area of the wing from wing tip to wing tip is the:
a) Taper
b) Aspect ration
c) Wing area
d) Sweep angle
16) What is airspeed considered to be in the study of aerodynamics?
18) An aircraft is stabilized in level flight at 600 knots TAS with a ground speed of 8 nautical miles per
minute. What is the wind component?
19) What component in the pitot-static system provides total pressure input?
20) What change in mach number occurs as an aircraft descends at a constant 350 knots IAS?
a) A straight line extending from the upper surface to the lower surface of an airfoil
b) A straight line extending from the leading edge to the trailing edge of an airfoil
c) A straight line extending from the wing root to the wing tip
d) A diagonal line from the leading edge wing root to the trailing edge wing tip
22) What is the angle formed between the wing chord line and the longitudinal axis?
a) Angle of attack
b) Angle of incidence
c) Pitch angle
d) Sideslip angle
a) AF = qSCF
b) AF = qSCL
c) AF = qSCD
d) AF = qSCHACC
24) What change in angle of attack is needed to maintain a constant amount of lift as aircraft TAS
decreases?
a) An increase
b) A decrease
c) No change
d) It is not possible to maintain a constant amount of lift as TAS decreases
25) What is the single largest factor in increasing an aircraft’s stall speed?
a) Increasing weight
b) Decreasing weight
c) Decreasing air density
d) Decreasing humidity
26) What two factors does the pilot control that affect the coefficient of lift?
27) Which of the following, when doubled, will cause the greatest increase in lift?
a) Velocity
b) Coefficient of lift
c) Density
d) Area
28) According to the lift equation (L = 1/2pV2SCL), upon what variables is lift directly dependent?
a) TAS, S, V
b) TAS, q, S
c) TAS, C, S, density
d) TAS, p, CL, S
30) What change in the coefficient of total drag (CDt) occurs at angles of attack greater than CLMAX?
32) Vortices can cause one or both of the wings of a trailing plane to stall.
a) True
b) False
34) The amount of thrust that an aircraft’s engines are actually producing at a give throttle setting, velocity
and density is:
a) Thrust required
b) Thrust available
c) Power required
d) Thrust horsepower
a) Decreases
b) Increases
c) Remains constant
a) True
b) False
a) Decreases
b) Increases
c) Remains constant
a) Increases
b) Decreases
c) Remains constant
a) 1350 SHP
b) 1015 SHP
c) 400 SHP
d) 425 SHP
40) Propeller efficiency (pe):
a) L/D
b) L/D minimum
c) L/D maximum
d) TAS
KEY
1) b
2) c
3) a
4) c
5) d
6) b
7) b
8) a
9) d
10) c
11) c
12) b
13) d
14) d
15) c
16) c
17) d
18) a
19) d
20) b
21) b
22) b
23) a
24) a
25) a
26) b
27) a
28) d
29) a
30) a
31) b
32) a
33) c
34) d
35) a
36) b
37) c
38) b
39) d
40) b
41) c
42) b