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What is the continuity equation and what does it state?

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V1 x A1 = V2 x A2

The speed of the airflow is inversely proportional to the area of the cross section of the tube

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What is meant by Diffuser outlet?

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When the diameter of the tube increases and the speed decreases

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What is meant by Jet outlet?

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When the diameter of the tube decreases and the speed increases

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What does Bernoulli’s principle state?

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The total pressure if the sum of the static and dynamic pressures

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What is the point of stagnation?

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The point at the leading edge where there is no speed of airflow and the static pressure is equal to the total pressure

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What is up-wash?

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Where some streamlines slope upwards in front of the wing and pass over the top

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What is down-wash?

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Where streamlines of the upper surface flow downwards when leaving the wing at the trailing edge

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What is the Magnus effect?

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Where a cylinder is spun and generates lift by increasing speed on the upper surface and decreasing speed on the lower surface

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What is a profile?

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A cross section of a wing (aerofoil)

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What is the Chord?

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A straight line connecting the leading edge and the trailing edge

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What is the mean camber line?

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The line drawn half way between the upper and the lower surfaces of the profile

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What is the camber?

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The displacement of the mean camber line from the chord line

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What is the Fineness ratio?

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The maximum thickness of the profile as a fraction

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What is the flight path velocity?

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The speed of the aircraft in a certain direction through the air

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What is the relative wind?

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The speed and direction of the air acting on the aircraft

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What is the angle of attack?

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The angle between the chord line of the profile and the relative wind

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What is the equation of wing area?

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Wing span x chord of the wing

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What is the taper ratio equation?

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Chord tip / chord root

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What is the aspect ratio equation?

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Wing span / average chord

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What are the 2 aerodynamic forces?

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Lift and drag

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What is the centre of pressure?

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The point where all pressures and all forces act

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What variables can change the lift and drag?

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Dynamic pressure

Surface area

Shape

Angle of attack

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What is the equation for theoretical lift?

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1/2 x p x V2 x A

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How do you measure lift and drag?

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Through a wind tunnel

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Wha is the equation for the coefficient of lift?
Measured lift / theoretical lift
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What does the polar (Lilienthal) diagram show?
The most efficient angle of attack
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What are the 3 categories of drag?
Induced drag Parasite drag Compressible drag
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What is induced drag?
Drag on the wing caused by the lift
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What is parasite drag?
It can be form drag caused by the distribution of pressure, friction drag or interference drag
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What is compressible drag?
Caused by the shockwaves on an aircraft approaching the speed of sound
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What is form drag?
A parasite drag caused by the pressure distribution on a body
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What is friction drag?
A type of parasite drag, the lower the friction drag, the higher the form drag
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What are the 2 types of boundary layer?
Turbulent and laminar
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What is the laminar boundary layer?
It’s immediately downstream of the leading edge
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What is the turbulent boundary layer?
It’s downstream of the laminar boundary layer
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What is interference drag?
The difference of the sum of the drags and the total drag on the wing strut and the engine
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How can interference drag be reduced?
By fairings
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When does compressible drag occur?
During transonic and supersonic flight
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Why is compressible drag caused?
By shockwaves on an aircraft approaching the speed of sound
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Why is compressible drag not present in subsonic flight?
The aircraft is travelling too slow
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What is total drag?
A combination of induced drag and parasite drag
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What are the 4 types of wing shape?
Elliptical Rectangular Tapered Swept
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Which part of an elliptical wing stalls first?
The whole wing stalls at the same time due to a constant down wash behind the wing
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Which part of a rectangular wing stalls first?
The root stalls first followed by the tip due to a larger downwash at the tip than the root
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Which part of a tapered wing stalls first?
The tip stalls first due to an increased downwash towards the root
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Which part of a swept wing stalls first?
The tip stalls first
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What makes a geometrically twisted wing?
When the camber of the profile is constant across the wingspan but the angle of incidence is greater at the root than the tip
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What makes an aerodynamically twisted wing?
The camber of the profile is greater at the root than the tip and the angle of incidence is constant across the wing
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What does MAC mean?
Mean aerodynamic chord
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What happens in a wing root stall?
Aircraft goes to nose down position Loses altitude Speed increases Aircraft recovers with no pilot input
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What happens during a wing tip stall?
Aircraft goes to nose up Angle of attack increases Pilot input is needed to control aircraft
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What do wing fences do?
Keep the air particles going in a straight line to control the boundary layer
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What is a vortex generator used for?
To improve boundary layer control by producing lift

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