AIRCRAFT BASIC CONSTRUCTION AND FLIGHT PRINCIPLES

Question 1

Aircraft Categories

Answer 1

Lighther than air
Airplane
Rotacraft
Glider

Question 2

Airplane has 4 engine types

Answer 2

Single engine land
Single engine sea
Multi-engine land
Multi-engine sea

Question 3

What are the major components of an airplane?

Answer 3

Empennage
Fuselage
Wings
Powerplant
Landing Gear

Question 4

Position of wing

Answer 4

High wing
Mid wing
Low wing
Gull wing
Dihedral wing
Inverted gull wing

Question 5

What are the wing shapes?

Answer 5

Rectangle
Swift
Tapered
Delta
Slight sweepback
Moderate sweepback
Great sweepback
Forward Sweep
Simple delta
Complex delta
Variable swept

Question 6

What are the wing number?

Answer 6

Monoplane
Biplane
Triplane

Question 7

What are the wing structure?

Answer 7

Noncantilever wing with external support
Cantilever wing with no external support

Question 8

What are the wing internal structure?

Answer 8

Wing flap
spar
aileron
wing tip
stringers
ribs
skin
fuel tank

Question 9

What are the wing construction?

Answer 9

Monospar
Multispar
Box beam

Question 10

What are the wing spars?

Answer 10

Wood
Metal

Question 11

What are the wing skin?

Answer 11

wood
metal

Question 12

Types of fuselage

Answer 12

Truss type
Monocoque
Semi-monoque

Question 13

Older types of aircraft design utilized an open ______ structure constructed of wood, steel, or aluminum tubing.

Answer 13

Truss type

Question 14

________ fuselage relies largely on the strength of the skin or covering to carry the primary loads

Answer 14

monocoque

Question 15

It also consists of frame assemblies, bulkheads, and formers as used in the monocoque design but, additionally, the skin is reinforced by longitudinal members called longerons.

Answer 15

semi-monocoque

Question 16

What are the engine position?

Answer 16

on the wings
on the wing pylons
close to fuselage
rear mounted
tractor
pusher

Question 17

What are the engine number?

Answer 17

Single engine
twin engine
triple engine
four or multiple-engine

Question 18

What are the engine types?

Answer 18

Piston/propeller
Turboprop (propeller Turbine)
Jet
Turbofan

Question 19

What is Composed of the Vertical Stabilizer and Horizontal Stabilizer?

Answer 19

Empennage or Tail section

Question 20

Empennage arrangement

Answer 20

Conventional
Twin vertical Stabilizers
Triple vertical stabilizer
V-tail (Butterfly)

Question 21

Types of landing gears

Answer 21

Floaters/hull
Wheels

Question 22

What are the landing gear arrangement?

Answer 22

Tail wheel type
tandem
tricycle

Question 23

For tractor type. The main gear is located forward of the center of gravity, causing the tail to require support from a third-wheel assembly.

Answer 23

Tail Wheel Type Landing Gear (Conventional Landing Gear)

Question 24

the main gear and tail gear aligned on the longitudinal axis of the aircraft.

Answer 24

Tandem Landing Gear

Question 25

The most used landing gear arrangement is the ______. It is comprised of main gear and nose gear.

Answer 25

Tricycle Landing Gear

Question 26

Landing gear construction

Answer 26

Fixed Retractable

Question 27

Fixed landing gear (Non-Shock Absorbing Landing Gear)

Answer 27

Leaf Type Spring Gear Rigid Bungee Cord

Question 28

Fixed and Retractable

Answer 28

Shock Struts

Question 29

Special landing gear: wheel

Answer 29

Rough field Soft field

Question 30

What are the basic flight principles?

Answer 30

Lift Weight Drag Thrust

Question 31

the force which opposes the force of gravity (or weight).

Answer 31

lift

Question 32

the _______ acts vertically downward from the center of gravity (CG) of the airplane.

Answer 32

weight

Question 33

the force that opposes the forward motion of an airplane. Specifically, drag is a retarding force acting upon a body in motion through a fluid, parallel to the direction of motion of a body.

Answer 33

Drag

Question 34

defined as the forward direction pushing or pulling force developed by an aircraft engine.

Answer 34

thrust