WorksheetsAEROTECH END OF SEMESTER EXAM 2
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 25mins
What agency is in charge of regulating the safety of the airlines and of controlling the flight of all air traffic while flying over the United States
Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA)
Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA)
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
Which aircraft is the largest ever built?
747
767
757
True or False: A pilot usually learns to fly in general aviation or in the military.
True
False
What kind of aircraft can be purchased by anyone and built at the comfort of their own home?
Gliders
Homebuilt
Ultralight
Fill in the blank: ________________ is the controlled descent of an unpowered aircraft.
Gliding
Aerobatics
Soaring
Which is not a type of Business Aviation?
Freight Carrier
Executive
Corporate
Which is not a Business Aviation type aircraft?
Cessna 152
Learjet
King Air
What is an industrial use of a Business Aircraft?
Fire Fighting
Law Enforcement
Agricultural
True or False: Aerial Advertising is a form of NON TRANSPORTATION Business Aviation.
True
False
What is the device used by helicopter fire fighters to dispense water on fires?
Water Bucket
Fire suppressor
Bambi Bucket
Is a Blimp considered a form of NON TRANSPORTATION Business Aviation?
Yes
No
Which is NOT one of the methods used by gliders to generate lift?
Thermals
Ridge Lift
Headwind
Which condition(s) are best for conducting glider flights?
Sun over the horizon
Cloudy skies
Clear skies
Both A & C
What does a 30:1 glide ratio means?
30 meter forward movement to a loss of 1 meter in altitude
30 meter loss in altitude to 1 meter forward forward movement
30 meter gain in altitude to a 1 meter forward movement
Which aircraft has the worst glide ratio?
Libelle
747
Space Shuttle
True or False: Most gliders have no engine.
False
True
What is not a method used to get gliders up flying?
Tow plane
Going down a hill
Steam catapult
Retractable Engine
True or False: Thermals are generated by the sun as it heats earth's surface.
True
False
A Variometer indicates what in a glider?
Altitude
Vertical speed
Barometric pressure
Who designed and flew the first successful helicopter?
Igor Sykorsky
Sir George Cayley
Paul Cornu
What is an advantage of helicopters?
Can take-off or land from anywhere
Low maintenance requirements
Low maintenance costs
An aircraft that can take off or land in a very short runway or piece of land is also know as _ _ _ _ ?
VTOL
SLOW
UAVS
STOL
An aircraft that flies without the possibility of human intervention within the aircraft itself is called a?
Experimental Aircraft
Ultralight Aircraft
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Gyrocopter
How many minutes in 1 degree?
10 minutes
30 minutes
60 minutes
How many quadrants comprise one degree?
one
two
three
Lines that run from the North Pole to the South Pole.
Longitude
Latitude
Isogonic
Lines that start at the Equator.
Latitude
Longitude
Isogonic
Longitude lines start at?
Equator
Greenwich, England
United States of America
In the coordinate below, which numbers represent minutes?
N 28° 30' 50"
28
50
30
If a pilot did not recognize a particular symbol contained within a sectional chart, what can he/she use to figure out what the symbol means?
Special Use Airspace section
Legend section
Scale section
True or False: Airport Facility Directories contain all kinds of information regarding a particular airport. It includes runway length, airport name, and communication frequencies.
True
False
What do pilots call the maps that they use to plan a flight from one airport to another?
Geographical map
Sectional Chart
Contour map
First Man to the Moon?
Neil Armstrong
Buzz Aldrin
Michael collins
Which country made it space first?
United States
China
Russia
Brazil
Which country invented the A2-V4 Rockets?
China
Russia
Germany
United States
What is the name of the rocket project that stemmed out of the A2-V4 rockets which was used as a missile?
Red Drone
Red Stone
Red Bomb
What is the name of the first mission into space?
Apollo
Venus
Mercury
Gemini
What is the name of the second mission into space?
Gemini
Apollo
Mercury
What is the name of the NASA mission that landed men on the Moon?
Venus
Mercury
Gemini
Apollo
What is the name of the American President that tasked NASA with a mission to the Moon?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
John F. Kennedy
Who was the first man in to space?
Vladimir Putin
Nicholai Gorvachev
Nikita Kruchev
Yuri Gargarin
What is the name of the rock found in the Moon?
Genesis
Nemesis
Thesis
Jesus
What is one difference between the Mercury and Gemini mission?
Two astronauts vice just one
Different type of fuel
No differences
What is the name of the Apollo astronaut that stayed in the capsule while the other astronauts landed on the Moon?
Buzz Aldrin
Michael Collins
Neil Armstrong
What type of mission was the Mercury missions?
Suborbital
Orbital
Extraterrestrial
Which of the following is NOT an accomplishment of the Apollo missions?
Change in orbits
Space walks
Built Skylab
What is the name of the first space station?
ISS
SkyLab
Enterprise
Which of the following is NOT considered a probe?
Galileo
Voyager
Columbia
Which space shuttle mission disintegrated as it re-enter our atmosphere?
Challenger
Columbia
Endeavour
Which of the following is NOT a space shuttle mission?
Discovery
Endeavour
Challenger
Atlantis
Voyager
