Chapter 14 Aerospace Engineering

____ made the first sustainable flight of an airplane.

• The Montgolfier brothers

• The Wright brothers

• The Soviet Union

• NASA

As air passes over a wing, the air is turned downward, producing ____.

• Yaw

• Thrust

• Lift

• Roll

Which of the following describes how pressure of a fluid decreases as its speed increases?

• Newton’s third law of motion

• Bernoulli’s theory of lift

• Newton’s first law of motion

• Newton’s second law of motion

The ________ is the shape of the wing.

• Angle of incidence

• Angle of attack

• Airfoil

• Yaw

A ________ is a spacecraft that uses traditional aircraft controls surfaces while in Earth's atmosphere.

• Rocket

• Rover

• Space plane

• Satellite

_________ wings are used on most commercial aircraft.

• Delta

• Swept

• Conventional straight

• Biplane

_______ engines provide the greatest amount of thrust for their weight.

• Jet

• Rocket

• Propeller

• Afterburning

The International Space Station is an example of a _________.

• Space plane

• Satellite

• Rocket

• Rover

Rockets can operate in space because they carry their own ______.

• Oxygen

• Carbon dioxide

• Vacuum

• Oil

Engineers can study the effects of moving air on objects inside a _______.

• Large vacuum

• Wind tunnel

• Wind farm

• Swimming Pool