Aerospace Engineering

Design, building, analysis, and troubleshooting of components in aircraft, spacecraft, missiles, and high-altitude vehicles.

• Aeronautics

• Propulsion System

• Elevator

• Aerospace Engineering

Aerodynamic force created by the friction of moving air that opposes propulsion.

• Angle of Attack

• Drag

• Thrust

• Aileron

Theory that states an airfoil is more curved on the top, so air traveling over the wing has to travel farther than the air traveling under the wing, causing the air flowing over the wing to flow faster relative to the wing than the air flowing under the wing, causing a low pressure zone above the wing and, therefore, lift.

• Bernoulli theory of lift

• Pitch

• Aerospace engineering

• Diherdral Angle

Study of manned and unmanned craft outside the earth’s atmosphere

• Gas turbine engine

• Rudder

• Astronautics

• Aileron

Control surface located on the rear of the horizontal stabilizer that controls vertical movement of the nose.

• Gas turbine engine

• Astronautics

• Propulsion system

• Elevator

Rotating blades that force air toward the rear of an aircraft causing the aircraft to move forward.

• Satellite

• Elevator

• Aerospace Engineering

• Propeller

Angle of the chord line of the wing relative to the airflow.

• Aerospace Engineering

• Satellite

• Angle of attack

• Wind turbine

Upward angle of wings away from the body that creates stability.

• Aeronautics

• Dihedral angle

• Satellite

• Astronautics

Component of a wing that is located on the outside rear of each wing and is adjusted for turning.

• Gas turbine engine

• Aileron

• Propeller

• Flap

Type of spacecraft that orbits the earth because the centrifugal force created by its motion is in perfect balance with the earth’s gravitational pull.

• Aileron

• Propeller

• Flap

• Satellite