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Aerodynamics
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from the FAA
Flight and Ground Instructor
Test Bank |
- In certain single-rotor helicopters, the mast is rigged away from the vertical position by approximately 1°. This slight vertical offset is primarily for the purpose of counteracting
- In preparing to take off in a gyroplane, your student engages the clutch and prerotates the rotor to takeoff RPM. If brakes are released prior to disengaging the clutch, the gyroplane will turn
- The ability of a rotor blade to rotate about its spanwise axis is called
- At what bank angle will the resultant of gravity and centrifugal force equal twice a glider's weight?
- What causes a gas balloon to start a descent if a cold air mass is encountered and the envelope becomes cooled?
- An airship with a small fineness ratio has a hull form that will introduce
- Which type of flap creates the greatest change in pitching moment?
- What will cause the nose of an aircraft to move in the direction of the turn before the bank starts in a turn entry?
- The angle between the chord line of the wing and the longitudinal axis of the aircraft is known as
- That portion of the aircraft's total drag created by the production of lift is called
- As the angle of bank is increased, the vertical component of lift
- An airplane is usually affected by ground effect at what height above the surface?
- Rotor blade rotation during powered flight in a gyroplane is produced by the
- When rolling out of a steep-banked turn, what causes the lowered aileron to create more drag than when rolling into the turn?
- Which statement relates to Bernoulli's principle?
- Which statement describes the relationship of the forces acting on an aircraft in a constant-power and constant-airspeed descent?
- It is possible to fly an aircraft just clear of the ground at a slightly slower airspeed than that required to sustain level flight at higher altitudes. This is the result of
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(Refer to figure 18.)
What is the stall speed of an airplane under a load factor of 4 if the unaccelerated stall speed is 70 knots?
- Which statement is true concerning the aerodynamic conditions which occur during a spin entry?
- The tendency of an aircraft to develop forces that further remove the aircraft from its original position, when disturbed from a condition of steady flight, is known as
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(Refer to figure 22.)
While rolling into a right turn, if the inclinometer appears as illustrated in A, the HCL and CF vectors would be acting on the aircraft as illustrated in
- The reason for variations in geometric pitch (twisting) along a propeller blade is that it
- During flight, if you apply cyclic control pressure which results in a decrease in pitch angle of the rotor blades at a position approximately 90° to your left, the rotor disc will tilt
- With the rotor turning at normal operating RPM, blades will bend upward due to
- The best lift/drag ratio of a glider occurs when parasite drag is
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(Refer to figure 18.)
If, during a steady turn with a 50° bank, a load factor of 1.5 were imposed on an airplane which has an unaccelerated stall speed of 60 knots, at what speed would the airplane first stall?
- If an aircraft has negative dynamic and positive static stability, this will result in
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(Refer to figure 21.)
Consider only aspect ratio (other factors remain constant). Which aircraft will generate greatest drag?
- The lift differential that exists between advancing and retreating main rotor blades is known as
- What is dissymmetry of lift?
- The purpose of a horizontal stabilizer on a helicopter is to provide
- Most helicopters tend to drift to the right when hovering. What is done to counteract this?
- Which type of flap creates the least change in pitching moment?
- During a level turn, increasing the airspeed while maintaining a constant load factor would result in
- Which is true concerning retreating blade stall?
- (Refer to figure 19.) Which statement is true regarding airplane flight at L/Dmax?
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(Refer to figure 21.)
Which aircraft has the highest aspect ratio?
- The quality of an aircraft that permits it to be operated easily and to withstand the stresses imposed on it is
- Which subsonic planform provides the best lift coefficient?
- What causes false lift which sometimes occurs during a balloon launch?
- As a weight shift aircraft wing approaches a stall, the wing tips
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