Aerospace Engineers Test

____ 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 a wing.

• Angle of incidence

• Angle of attack

• Airfoil

• Yaw

A ____ is a spacecraft that uses traditional aircraft control surfaces while in earth’s atmosphere.

• Rocket

• Rover

• Space plane

• Satellite

____ wings are used on most commercial airliners.

• 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 ______.

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

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