WorksheetsAerospace 1
Total questions: 96
Worksheet time: 48mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What gives you the ability to see objects that are far away?
a)
Elevation
b)
Height
c)
Mountian
d)
Telescope <br />
2.
What part of a the conventional airplane is the basic structure to which all the other parts are attached?
a)
Heading indicator
b)
The trailing edge
c)
Wave drag
d)
The fuselage
3.
Who built the first devices that enabled us to fly?
a)
The Wright brothers
b)
The Montgolfier Brothers
c)
The Chinese
d)
Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier
4.
What axis runs from one wingtip through the fuselage and exits the other wingtip?
a)
The vertical axis
b)
Heading indicator
c)
Semimonocoque
d)
The lateral axis
5.
Who solved the three basic problems of flight when their Flyer flew on December 17, 1903?
a)
The Chinese
b)
Pilatre de Rozier and Marquis d'Arlandes
c)
Madeleine Sophie Blanchard
d)
The Wright brothers
6.
Who developed the first known principles of flight?
a)
Airspeed indicator
b)
Henri Giffard
c)
The Wright brothers
d)
Leonardo da Vinci
7.
What is the action end of an aircraft's reciprocating engine?
a)
The trailing edge
b)
The propeller
c)
The dirigible
d)
The leading edge
8.
What is the imaginary line running from the leading edge to the trailing edge of an airfoil?
a)
The chord
b)
Laminar flow
c)
The camber
d)
Temperature
9.
What are protrusions from the leading edge of a wing?
a)
Slats
b)
Flaps
c)
Fuel tanks
d)
Altimeter
10.
What can be located anywhere in the aircraft?
a)
Fuel tanks
b)
Tempature
c)
Elevation
d)
Flaps
11.
What is a type of compass which makes use of a gyroscopic device and is affected by very little turbulence?
a)
The longitudinal axis
b)
Heading indicator
c)
Turbine engine
d)
Attitude indicator
12.
Combines the air-moving efficiency of the turbofan engine with the thrusting efficiency of a propeller?
a)
Mach number
b)
Henri Giffard
c)
Aeronautics
d)
Propfan system
13.
Drag is almost always what to aircraft performance?
a)
Magentic compass
b)
Detrimental
c)
Aeronautics
d)
Fuel tanks
14.
What engines power the conventional vehicles used for transportation, work, and pleasure?
a)
The vertical axis
b)
Reciprocating engines
c)
Reciprocating engine
d)
The longitudinal axis
15.
What measures the rate of climb or descent?
a)
Laminar flow
b)
The internal-combustion engine
c)
Vertical velocity indicator
d)
The wing-warping technique
16.
What was an important improvement over the balloon because it could be steered?
a)
The camber
b)
Fuel lines
c)
The lateral axis
d)
The dirigible
17.
What is motion around the lateral axis called?
a)
Aeronautics
b)
Yaw
c)
Roll
d)
Pitch
18.
What are the three basic problems of flight?
a)
Changing the camber, or curvature, of the airfoil shape of the wing
b)
Developing necessary lift, sustaining that lift, and controlling the aircraft once it is flying
c)
Aerodynamics
d)
Vertical velocity indicator
19.
What phenomenon occurs when an object is placed in the path of moving air?
a)
Viscosity
b)
The camber
c)
Viscous drag
d)
Tachometer
20.
What is the smooth flow pattern of air around an object?
a)
The chord
b)
Elevation
c)
Thrust
d)
Laminar Flow
21.
Who built the hot air balloon that had the first human passengers?
a)
Thaddeus S. C. Lowe
b)
Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier
c)
The Chinese
d)
The Montgolfier Brothers
22.
When did the Wright Flyer have its first successful flight?
a)
Temperature
b)
The leading edge
c)
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d)
Aerodynamics
23.
Who may have used man-carrying kites to spy on their enemies?
a)
The Montgolfier Brothers
b)
Henri Giffard
c)
The Chinese
d)
Daniel Brenoulli
24.
Produce greater thrust and are more fuel efficient than standard turbojet engines?
a)
Semimonocoque
b)
The dirigible
c)
Turbojet engine
d)
Turbofan engine
25.
Who organized the Balloon Signal Service, which was the first use of balloons by the United States military?
a)
Henri Giffard
b)
Thaddeus S. C. Lowe
c)
The Wright brothers
d)
Laurenco de Gusmao
26.
What causes induced lift?
a)
Samuel Pierpont Langley's aircraft Aerodrome
b)
Viscosity
c)
The internal-combustion engine
d)
Changing the camber, or curvature, of the airfoil shape of the wing
27.
If a pilot subtracts the empty weight from the maximum gross weight the result is how many pounds can be loaded into the airplane; this is called what?
a)
Laminar flow
b)
Useful load
c)
The propeller
d)
Wave drag
28.
Its covering provides the required strength to resist the stresses of flight is an example of what?
a)
The chord
b)
Monocoque
c)
Gyroscope
d)
Turbine engine
29.
Instruments are classified by their use fall into what two major groups?
a)
Ramjet/scramjet engine
b)
Turbofan engine
c)
The trailing edge
d)
Performance and control
30.
Who were the first men to fly in a lighter-than-air craft?
a)
The Wright brothers
b)
Leonardo da Vinci
c)
The Chinese
d)
Pilatre de Rozier and Marquis d'Arlandes
31.
What area determines the airfoil's thickness and thus its lift?
a)
Elevation
b)
Mach Number
c)
The leading edge
d)
The camber
32.
Early airfoils were similar to what?
a)
The lateral axis
b)
The leading edge
c)
The wings of birds
d)
The wing-warping technique
33.
Have to be traveling through the air very fast in order to work?
a)
The wing-warping technique
b)
Ramjet/scramjet engine
c)
Samuel Pierpont Langley's aircraft Aerodrome
d)
The vertical axis
34.
What is a gyroscope instrument which provides a horizon to show relationship to pitch and bank?
a)
Viscous drag
b)
The dirigible
c)
Attitude indicator
d)
The longitudinal axis
35.
Today, most airplanes are built of what?
a)
The Chinese
b)
Airspeed indicator
c)
Aluminum alloys
d)
Laurenco de Gusmao
36.
Who invented the hot air balloon?
a)
Airspeed indicator
b)
Daniel Bernoulli
c)
Otto Lilienthal
d)
Laurenco de Gusmao
37.
What measures the passage of time?
a)
Clock
b)
Slats
c)
Pitch
d)
Tachometer
38.
What axis runs from the tip of the nose to the tip of the tail in a single-engine airplane?
a)
Aerodynamics
b)
Reciprocating engines
c)
The propeller
d)
The longitudinal axis
39.
What part of an airfoil meets relative wind first?
a)
The leading edge
b)
The propeller
c)
The camber
d)
The fuselage
40.
What is a two-in-one instrument revealing direction, rate, and quality of turn?
a)
The lateral axis
b)
The vertical axis
c)
Semimonocoque
d)
Turn-and-slip indicator
41.
Air is accelerated and compressed by stator and rotor blades, then mixed with fuel and ignited in the combustion section, resulting in high-velocity gas or thrust?
a)
Turbofan engine
b)
Aerodynamics
c)
Turbojet engine
d)
Useful load
42.
Who was the first woman to make a ballooning career, and also the first woman to be killed in a ballooning accident?
a)
George Caley
b)
An airfoil
c)
Madeleine Sophie Blanchard
d)
Daniel Bernoulli
43.
What measures altitude and most often is an aneroid barometer?
a)
Gyroscope
b)
Altimeter
c)
Aerodynamics
d)
Mach number
44.
What is motion around the longitudinal axis called?
a)
Drag
b)
Aeronautics
c)
Roll
d)
Gyroscope
45.
Which three scientists performed scientific studies of the atmosphere, learning that the atmosphere is a fluid and that atmospheric pressure decreases the higher you climb?
a)
The propeller
b)
Turn-and-slip indicator
c)
Torricelli, Von Guericke, and Pascal
d)
Vertical velocity indicator
46.
Who wrote "The whole problem is confined with these limits; namely, to make a surface support a given weight by the application of power to the resistance of air?
a)
An airfoil
b)
Madeleine Sophie Blanchard
c)
Daniel Bernoulli
d)
George Caley
47.
What is the ratio of the speed of an object to the speed of sound in air?
a)
Mach number
b)
Aerodynamics
c)
Magnetic compass
d)
Semimonocoque
48.
What is the rear junction where the upper and lower parts of the airfoil meet?
a)
The propeller
b)
Heading indicator
c)
Aerodynamics
d)
The trailing edge
49.
What is the science and art of flight through the atmosphere?
a)
The trailing edge
b)
Aeronautics
c)
Altimeter
d)
Elevation
50.
What was the first successful rigid dirigible?
a)
LZ-1
b)
Clock
c)
Thrust
d)
Roll
51.
What is it called when air flows across a shock wave it undergoes a change in temperature, pressure, and velocity?
a)
Aerodynamics
b)
Gyroscope
c)
The chord
d)
Wave drag
52.
What measures how fast the engine's crankshaft is turning?
a)
Tachometer
b)
The camber
c)
The propeller
d)
Altimeter
53.
What are the four forces of flight?
a)
Lift, drag, thrust, and weight
b)
The Montgolfier Brothers
c)
Laurenco de Gusmao
d)
Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier
54.
What is the force that opposes all motion through the atmosphere and is parallel to the direction of the relative wind?
a)
Slats
b)
Drag
c)
Thrust
d)
Wave drag
55.
What are attached to the trailing edge of the wing?
a)
Flaps
b)
The leading edge
c)
Viscosity
d)
LZ-1
56.
What technique was instrumental in the Wright Brother's success?
a)
Turn-and-slip indicator
b)
The wing-wraping techinque
c)
The camber
d)
The internal-combustion engine
57.
What utilizes longerons and struts welded together at various angles to form its basic shape?
a)
Slats
b)
Roll
c)
The chord
d)
Truss
58.
What is the measure of the energy within a gas?
a)
Aeronautics
b)
The internal-combustion engine
c)
The trailing edge
d)
Temperature
59.
Flaps are often used for both what?
a)
Attitude indicator
b)
Takeoffs and landings
c)
The trailing edge
d)
The longitudinal axis
60.
Wings having a front and a rear spar, with connecting ribs, were developed by who?
a)
John Stringfellow
b)
Reciprocating engines
c)
The dirigible
d)
Turbofan engine
61.
Who invented gunpowder?
a)
Leonardo da Vinci
b)
The Wright brothers
c)
Henri Giffard
d)
The Chinese
62.
What is the reciprocating engine also known as?
a)
Temperature
b)
The internal-combustion engine
c)
Laminar flow
d)
The wing-warping technique
63.
Who has been called the "Father of Modern Aviation?"
a)
Laurenco de Gusmao
b)
The Chinese
c)
Aluminum alloys
d)
Otto Lilienthal
64.
What lead from each fuel tank to distribute the fuel throughout the aircraft?
a)
The chord
b)
Viscosity
c)
Fuel Lines
d)
The lateral axis
65.
What is designed specifically to cause a dynamic reaction from the air through which it moves?
a)
Magnetic compass
b)
Slats
c)
An airfoil
d)
The propeller
66.
What system is based on Pascal's law of pressure applied to a liquid in a closed container?
a)
The trailing edge
b)
The Wright brothers
c)
A Hydraulic system
d)
Henri Giffard
67.
What uses internal braces to help the skin carry the stresses generated in flight?
a)
Slats
b)
The trailing edge
c)
Turn-and-slip indicator
d)
Semimonocoque
68.
Who were the first people to achieve manned flight in a hot air balloon?
a)
The trailing edge
b)
Joesph and Etienne Montgolfier
c)
The Wright brothers
69.
What axis passes vertically through the meeting point of the longitudinal and lateral axes?
a)
Henri Giffard
b)
The vertical axis
c)
Magnetic compass
d)
Turn-and-slip indicator
70.
Which Jesuit priest is credited with inventing the hot air balloon?
a)
The Wright brothers
b)
Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier
c)
The Chinese
d)
Laurenco de Gusamo
71.
Each airplane has a total weight limitation called what?
a)
Maximum gross weight
b)
Laminar flow
c)
Ramjet/scramjet engine
d)
The wings of birds
72.
What informs the pilot of his or her speed through the air by use of a pitot tube?
a)
Airspeed indicator
b)
The Montgolfier Brothers
c)
Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier
d)
Laurenco de Gusmao
73.
What gives you the ability to see objects that are far away?
a)
Aerodynamics
b)
Gyroscope
c)
Density
d)
Elevation
74.
The atmosphere is a mixture of what?
a)
Fuel tanks
b)
Temperature
c)
Several gases
d)
The propeller
75.
Most electrical devices and controls on an aircraft receive their energy from what?
a)
The generator and battery system
b)
The vertical axis
c)
Propfan system
d)
The internal-combustion engine
76.
What is the force that propels the aircraft forward?
a)
Viscosity
b)
The chord
c)
Thrust
d)
Gyroscope
77.
What is Bernoulli's principle?
a)
"As a fluid's speed increases, the pressure within the fluid decreases"
b)
Developing necessary lift, sustaining that lift, and controlling the aircraft once it is flying
c)
Intake, compression, ignition and power, and exhaust
d)
Viscosity
78.
What is defined as a fluid's resistance to flow?
a)
Pitch
b)
Elevation
c)
Viscous drag
d)
Viscosity
79.
What is a graphic mathematical illustration showing both direction and magnitude?
a)
Mach number
b)
The camber
c)
A stall
d)
A vector
80.
According to legend, who built two sets of wings so he and his son could escape imprisonment?
a)
George Caley
b)
Laurenco de Gusmao
c)
The Chinese
d)
Daedalus
81.
Who was piloting the Wight Flyer on its first successful flight?
a)
Orville Wright
b)
The Wright brothers
c)
Laurenco de Gusmao
d)
The Chinese
82.
Who made the dirigible that is generally credited as being the first successful one in the world?
a)
George Caley
b)
The Wright brothers
c)
Henri Giffard
d)
Madeleine Sophie Blanchard
83.
What is the science relating to the energy of gases in motion?
a)
The camber
b)
Magnetic compass
c)
Aerodynamics
d)
The internal-combustion engine
84.
What is essentially how many molecules are squeezed into a given volume?
a)
Density
b)
Viscosity
c)
Aerodynamics
d)
Elevation
85.
The angle created by the pilot during takeoff is known as what?
a)
Laurenco de Gusmao
b)
The angle of attack
c)
The Chinese
d)
Otto Lilienthal
86.
Crankshaft and pistons working together to convert straight-line motion to rotary motion in order to turn an aircraft propeller?
a)
The longitudinal axis
b)
Reciprocating engine
c)
Turbine engine
d)
The vertical axis
87.
What was the first airplane to successfully fly after being launched from a catapult?
a)
The chord
b)
The dirigible
c)
Intake, compression, ignition and power, and exhaust
d)
Samuel Pierpont Langley's aircraft Aerodrome
88.
What is a heavy roto wheel mounted so it is free to rotate?
a)
Aeronautics
b)
Gyroscope
c)
The propeller
d)
A vector
89.
Who was given credit for developing the laws that explain how a wing lifts?
a)
Daniel Bernoulli
b)
Orville Wright
c)
Laurenco de Gusmao
d)
Otto Lilienthal
90.
Aircraft propellers turned by a turbine?
a)
Turboprop engine
b)
The leading edge
c)
Takeoffs and landings
d)
Turbine engine
91.
What system for an aircraft engine includes everything that involves delivery of fuel to the engine?
a)
Fuel lines
b)
Fuel systems
c)
Semimonocoque
d)
The propeller
92.
What occurs when lift is destroyed and the force of weight takes over?
a)
A vector
b)
The chord
c)
A stall
d)
The camber
93.
Takes in air, accelerates it, pushes it out the exhaust nozzle to produce thrust that pushes the aircraft forward?
a)
The dirigible
b)
Attitude indicator
c)
John Stringfellow
d)
Turbine engine
94.
What is motion around the vertical axis called?
a)
LZ-1
b)
Fuel tanks
c)
Yaw
d)
Aerodynamics
95.
What is the most basic and important navigational instrument?
a)
Mach number
b)
Magnetic compass
c)
Laminar flow
d)
Aerodynamics
96.
What are the strokes of a reciprocating engine?
a)
Fuel tanks
b)
Vertical velocity indicator
c)
Intake, compression, ignition and power, and exhaust
d)
The leading edge
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