2023 Fall Final Exam

Where did flight by balloon first occur?

• China

• Japan

• France

• United States

Which edge of an airfoil cuts through the air ahead?

• chord

• camber

• leading

• trailing

What did aircraft designers use to test models of new aircraft?

• airfoils

• wind tunnels

• chords

• cambers

What laws are fundamental to our understanding of flight today?

• Quest's Laws of Airlift

• Newton's Laws of Motion

• Paine's Laws of Force

• Wright's Laws of Flight

What changes the angle of attack on a plane's wings?

• knot

• pitch

• relative wind

• air pressure

What forces must you understand in order to safely fly an aircraft?

• lift, weight, thrust, and drag

• lift, acceleration, mass, and drag

• weight, acceleration, velocity, and drag

• acceleration, lift, thrust, and velocity

What is a gravitational force?

• lift

• weight

• drag

• thrust

What does it mean to 'trim' the aircraft?

• streamline

• decrease lift

• increase velocity

• balance

What does drag result from?

• Pressure pushing on an aircraft

• Air resisting an aircraft's forward motion

• Gravity working to slow an aircraft

• Equilibrium forces

What do you need to do to maintain a constant airspeed?

• Decrease thrust

• Decrease lift

• Increase angle of attack

• Maintain equal lift and weight

• Maintain equal thrust and drag