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A pilot that is specially trained to test aircraft is called what?

Flight test engineer

Pilot

Air Traffic Controller

Test pilot

Answer

Correct Answer: Test pilot

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What is a test pilot specially trained to do?

Test aircraft

Land aircraft

Navigate in difficult weather conditions

Fly in confined spaces

Navigate

Answer

Correct Answer: Test aircraft

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How long after takeoff does an airplane begin flying?

Halfway

Full throttle

Flight plan

Pre-flight checks

Enough lift

Answer

Correct Answer: Enough lift

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Pilots deploy what when they land so that the airplane is no longer "lifted"?

Ramps

Airdrops

Wings

Spoilers

Tail

Answer

Correct Answer: Spoilers

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What distance away from the friend would you have to be to hear what they say?

A distance and two heights

A distance

Two feet

A few feet

A distance and a height

Answer

Correct Answer: A distance

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The speed of sound is the speed at which what travels?

Light

Electrons

Sound waves

Water

Air

Answer

Correct Answer: Sound waves

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In what kind of vehicle is a skid used?

Train

Truck

Car

Aircraft

Answer

Correct Answer: Aircraft

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What is a runner used as part of the landing gear called?

Tail

Wheel

Skids

Tire

Landing gear

Answer

Correct Answer: Skids

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What do pilots in flight simulators see, hear and feel like they are in?

Real aircraft

Images projected on a screen

Computer generated aircraft

Virtual passengers

Movies

Answer

Correct Answer: Real aircraft

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What are the six steps of the scientific method?

Ask a question, collect data, analyze the data, and draw conclusions

Generate new ideas based on what you've learned, brainstorm possible solutions to problems you face each day, develop plans to test those ideas

Review literature to identify relevant research, develop a hypothesis, design an experiment, perform the experiment, analyze the data, and draw conclusions

State the problem, create a hypothesis, design an experiment, perform the experiment, organize and analyze the data, draw conclusions

Answer

Correct Answer: State the problem, create a hypothesis, design an experiment, perform the experiment, organize and analyze the data, draw conclusions

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How many steps are there in the scientific method?

Twelve

Six

Ten

Answer

Correct Answer: Six

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Pitch, roll, and yaw are examples of which three basic motions?

Rotational motion

Translational motion

Angular motion

Linear motion

Answer

Correct Answer: Rotational motion

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Pitch, roll and yaw are the rotational motions of an airplane around what other axes?

Radial and angular

Lateral, longitudinal and vertical

Angular, radial and diagonal

Answer

Correct Answer: Lateral, longitudinal and vertical

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Pitch, roll and yaw are the rotational motions of an airplane around what three axes?

The lateral, longitudinal and vertical axes

The yaw, pitch and roll axes in the same direction

The lateral, longitudinal and vertical axes in the same direction

Answer

Correct Answer: The lateral, longitudinal and vertical axes

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What does raising the aileron on the left wing do?

Increase lift on the left wing

Raise the height of the wing

Roll to the left

Decrease lift on the left wing

Decrease the angle of attack on the left wing

Answer

Correct Answer: Roll to the left

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What direction will the aircraft turn around its axis?

Rotational

Horizontal

Transverse

Longitudinal

Answer

Correct Answer: Longitudinal

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A rotational motion in which the aircraft turns around its?

Longitudinal axis

Vertical axis

Horizontal axis

Circular motion

Answer

Correct Answer: Longitudinal axis

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What kind of aircraft are placed into these categories?

They are aircraft that have been designed for a specific purpose

Aircraft are placed into these categories based on their weight.

The regimes of flight are subsonic, transonic, supersonic and hypersonic.

Aircraft are placed into these categories based on the speed of sound.

Answer

Correct Answer: The regimes of flight are subsonic, transonic, supersonic and hypersonic.

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The speed regimes of flight are known as what?

Supersonic, transonic, subsonic and supersonic

Supersonic, transonic and hypersonic

Supersonic, transonic and subsonic

Subsonic, transonic, supersonic and hypersonic

Supersonic, transonic, subsonic and hypersonic

Answer

Correct Answer: Subsonic, transonic, supersonic and hypersonic

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What type of investigation is the term "research" used to describe?

A study of a particular topic

The process of turning knowledge into use

A preliminary inquiry

A systematic collection of data

A carefully planned and performed

Answer

Correct Answer: A carefully planned and performed

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What is an example of an investigation that is carefully planned and performed?

A hastily planned and performed investigation, seeking to quickly resolve a problem

An investigation in which the investigator relies on hunches and circumstantial evidence

A carefully planned and performed investigation, searching for previously unknown facts

An investigation that is hastily planned and performed

A poorly planned and performed investigation, without proper regard for the evidence

Answer

Correct Answer: A carefully planned and performed investigation, searching for previously unknown facts

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What does "research" mean?

Reading about a topic in order to form an opinion

Investigating a new product or service

Studying the relationship between two factors

Producing new knowledge about a subject

Investigation, searching for previously unknown facts

Answer

Correct Answer: Investigation, searching for previously unknown facts

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What does reconnaissance mean in aviation?

Prewarning a course of action

Checking the condition of an aircraft before takeoff

To study an area to find weaknesses

To fly over and look closely at an area below

To check to see if an enemy is present

Answer

Correct Answer: To fly over and look closely at an area below

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What is the act of flying over an area to gather information about it called?

Survey

Observation

Surveillance

Reconnaissance

Mapping

Answer

Correct Answer: Reconnaissance

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What can be controlled to change the amount of thrust?

The amount of air supplied to the propellers

The power of the engines

The amount of fuel used

The speed of the propellers

The weight of the aircraft

Answer

Correct Answer: The speed of the propellers

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How can an engine change the amount of thrust that is created by the propellers?

By changing the speed of the propellers

By changing the angle of the propellers

By changing the pitch of the propellers

By changing the direction of the propellers

Answer

Correct Answer: By changing the speed of the propellers

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What can an engine control by changing the speed of the propellers?

The angle of the propellers

The rate of turning

The amount of thrust

The direction of the propellers

Answer

Correct Answer: The amount of thrust

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What type of molecule might be pressing against a surface?

Air pressure

A liquid molecule

A gas molecule

Water pressure

Answer

Correct Answer: Air pressure

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What does "air pressure" refer to?

Air molecules pressing against a surface like the bottom of a wing

The amount of gas in the atmosphere

The weight of the air above a given area

The force that holds the Earth in place

The atmospheric pressure at sea level

Answer

Correct Answer: Air molecules pressing against a surface like the bottom of a wing

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What does the pilot use to lower the elevators?

Pulling back on the control stick

Pushing forward on the control stick

The landing gear

A lever on the wall

Answer

Correct Answer: Pushing forward on the control stick

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What would you call a rotational motion in which an airplane turns around its lateral axis?

Pitch

Yaw

Roll

Answer

Correct Answer: Pitch

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What is an example of something that can be a pilot?

Boat

Train

Satellite

Aircraft

Answer

Correct Answer: Aircraft

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What makes an aircraft fly?

Airplane

Engine

Pilot

Propeller

Gas

Answer

Correct Answer: Pilot

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What does the payload include?

A missile

A satellite

Passengers and cargo

Answer

Correct Answer: Passengers and cargo

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What is the term for the load carried by an aircraft?

Passenger

Cargo

Baggage

Payload

Answer

Correct Answer: Payload

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What is the opposing force that is pulling the aircraft in the opposite direction?

Weight

Gravity

Air pressure

Drag

Air

Answer

Correct Answer: Weight

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What force would be opposing the weight force if the aircraft were flying straight and level?

Lift

Gravity

Thrust

Drag

Answer

Correct Answer: Lift

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What name did NACA have after 1958?

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and Space

National Advisory Committee for Civil Aviation

Answer

Correct Answer: National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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When did the name of the agency change from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration?

1958

1969

1967

1972

Answer

Correct Answer: 1958

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Most aircraft built today have only one set of?

Wings

Ailerons

Both wings and engines

Engines

Answer

Correct Answer: Wings

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What are most modern aircraft classified as?

Jet aircraft

MultipLANes

Helicopters

Monoplanes

Triplanes

Answer

Correct Answer: Monoplanes

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How many hydrogen atoms are in one molecule of water?

Two

Four

Six

One

Three

Answer

Correct Answer: Two

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What are the wind tunnel engineers creating when they create a model of an aircraft?

A precise replica of the outside of an aircraft

A study of airflow around an aircraft

A model of how the aircraft will fly

A model of how an aircraft will fly in the real world

A model of the inside of an aircraft

Answer

Correct Answer: A precise replica of the outside of an aircraft

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What does a model of an aircraft include?

The inside

The outside

The cockpit

The wings

Answer

Correct Answer: The outside

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What do wind tunnel engineers create models of?

Cars

Houses

Aircraft

Ships

Answer

Correct Answer: Aircraft

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What is an example of an aircraft that is only flown by the military?

The Navy's X-47B

The Air Force YF-23

The Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier

The Marine Corps' AV-8B Harrier II

The Navy F/A-18

Answer

Correct Answer: The Air Force YF-23

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What is an example of an aircraft that is flown only by the military?

Marine Corps AV-8B

Air Force YF-23

Lockheed L-1011

Boeing 747

Navy F/A-18

Answer

Correct Answer: Air Force YF-23

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What is the axis of motion around which the concept of roll is based?

Transverse

Vertical

Longitudinal

Answer

Correct Answer: Longitudinal

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What is the axis along which roll occurs?

Vertical axis

Latitudinal axis

Longitudinal axis

Transverse axis

Answer

Correct Answer: Longitudinal axis

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What is a motion around the longitudinal axis called?

Yaw

Pitch

Roll

Answer

Correct Answer: Roll

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What is the weight force that an airplane is designed to oppose?

Thrust

Drag

Lift

Weight

Answer

Correct Answer: Lift

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The front edge of an airfoil is what shape?

Rounded and thicker than the trailing edge

Triangular with a thin leading edge

Rectangular and thinner than the trailing edge

Conical and thinner than the trailing edge

Rectangular with a thin trailing edge

Answer

Correct Answer: Rounded and thicker than the trailing edge

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The front edge of an airfoil is called what?

Back edge

Leading edge

Trailing edge

Nose

Answer

Correct Answer: Leading edge

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Pitch is a motion around what axis?

The lateral axis

The vertical axis

The longitudinal axis

Answer

Correct Answer: The lateral axis

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What can the landing gear be retracted into?

Tail

Fuselage

Wing

Answer

Correct Answer: Fuselage

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What can be used to reduce drag?

Landing gear

A tail

A parachute

A wing

Answer

Correct Answer: Landing gear

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What does an undercarriage reduce?

Drag

Noise

Weight

Answer

Correct Answer: Drag

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The jet engine creates a high-velocity air jet to propel what?

The propellers

The engine forward

The engine aft

Answer

Correct Answer: The engine forward

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What kind of engine works by creating a high-velocity jet of air?

Thermal engine

Jet engine

Bicycle engine

Rocket engine

Answer

Correct Answer: Jet engine

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What are the purpose of the instruments?

To produce music

To produce sound

To observe, measure and control

To collect data

To transmit energy

Answer

Correct Answer: To observe, measure and control

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What is the definition of hypothesis?

A tentative conjecture

A proposition which is offered as a possible explanation for some observation

A prediction which needs to be tested to tell if it is correct

A suggestion for how something might work

A proposed explanation for a phenomenon

Answer

Correct Answer: A prediction which needs to be tested to tell if it is correct

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What kind of prediction needs to be tested?

Conclusion

Theorem

Hypothesis

Prediction

Answer

Correct Answer: Hypothesis

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What is the name of the reusable launch vehicle?

Falcon 1

Falcon 9

Hyper-X

Answer

Correct Answer: Hyper-X

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How fast will the Hyper-X be while in the atmosphere?

Hypersonic

Supersonic

Faster than Mach 5

Subsonic

Faster than the speed of sound

Answer

Correct Answer: Hypersonic

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What does the horizontal stabilizer help increase?

Control

Stability

Efficiency

Range

Answer

Correct Answer: Stability

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What is the horizontal stabilizer also known as?

Wing

Rudder

Tailplane

Answer

Correct Answer: Tailplane

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What are we usually encounterned with when we encounter gravity?

Mass

Force

Weight

Strength

Mover

Answer

Correct Answer: Weight

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What does gravity pull an object toward?

Sun

Earth

Nothing

A star

Moon

Answer

Correct Answer: Earth

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What does the "public" term mean?

A place where the public can congregate

The people who own the airport

A company that offers services to the public

The operation of aircraft that belong to the public

The people who use the airport

Answer

Correct Answer: The operation of aircraft that belong to the public

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What does the operation of aircraft belong to?

The public

The airline industry

The military

Answer

Correct Answer: The public

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How are flight tests used to investigate an aircraft's capabilities?

To test the reliability of an aircraft's systems

To investigate how fast, how far and how high an aircraft can go

To investigate how an aircraft handles in different weather conditions

To check whether the aircraft can meet safety standards

To investigate how an aircraft can be flown in a safe manner

Answer

Correct Answer: To investigate how fast, how far and how high an aircraft can go

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To investigate how an aircraft handles and performs, what is used as a type of flight test?

Airdrops

A control tower

Flight tests

Hang Gliding

A computer simulation

Answer

Correct Answer: Flight tests

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What is a tool of aeronautics that uses a flight simulator on the ground?

Navigation

Flight simulation

Radar

Satellite

Answer

Correct Answer: Flight simulation

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What does the pilot do when landing with the flaps extended?

Increasing the camber of the wing

Keeping the flaps down

Keeping the flaps in the retracted position

Decreasing the pitch of the wing

Answer

Correct Answer: Increasing the camber of the wing

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What does the flaps change the shape of?

Airfoil

Tail

Wing

Answer

Correct Answer: Airfoil

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What are flaps used to increase at slower air speeds?

Decrease airspeed

Speed

Wing area

Increase air speed

Lift

Answer

Correct Answer: Lift

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What part of the tail is called a fin?

The tip

The top of the tail

The bottom of the tail

The base

Another word for the vertical portion

Answer

Correct Answer: Another word for the vertical portion

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What word is used to describe the horizontal portion of the tail?

Fluke

Fin

Porch

Rump

End

Answer

Correct Answer: Fin

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What department is responsible for the Federal Aviation Administration?

Department of Justice

Department of Homeland Security

Department of Energy

Department of Transportation

Answer

Correct Answer: Department of Transportation

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What organization is in charge of aviation in the United States?

Federal Aviation Administration

National Transportation Safety Board

Department of Defense

Answer

Correct Answer: Federal Aviation Administration

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What type of engineer designs an experiment to test a new design?

Mechanical engineer

Flight simulation engineer

Civil engineer

Electrical engineer

Answer

Correct Answer: Flight simulation engineer

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What is the term for a set of controlled procedures designed to test an idea or hypothesis?

Survey

Test

Experiment

Trial

Answer

Correct Answer: Experiment

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What type of device might an engineer build that would be an example of electrical engineering?

A radio

A computer

Mechanical or electrical devices

A power generator

Answer

Correct Answer: Mechanical or electrical devices

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What is someone who designs and builds mechanical or electrical devices known as?

Artist

Engineer

Architect

Designer

Mechanic

Answer

Correct Answer: Engineer

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What do planes with propellers use to provide forward thrust?

Wings

Rotors

Engines

Propellers

Motors

Answer

Correct Answer: Engines

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What do jet engines do?

Provide the thrust force that pushes the airplane through the air

Help pilots steer the airplane

Extract energy from the air to create a push

Cool the air passing through it

Extract energy from the air to power the airplane

Answer

Correct Answer: Provide the thrust force that pushes the airplane through the air

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In an airplane, what do engines often drive?

A jet engine

Wings

Propellers

Answer

Correct Answer: Propellers

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What is the term for the parts of an airplane located at the tail end?

Wing

Empennage

Tail

Tailplane

Answer

Correct Answer: Empennage

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What is the purpose of the horizontal tail elevators?

To increase lift

To make the airplane yaw

To add lift

To make the airplane pitch

To reduce drag

Answer

Correct Answer: To make the airplane pitch

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Elevators on the horizontal part of the tail are used to make what control?

Roll

Pitch

Yaw

Answer

Correct Answer: Pitch

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What does the control stick do when someone pulls back on it?

Open the door to a restricted area

Lower the escalators

Stop the elevator

Lower the security gates

Raise the elevators

Answer

Correct Answer: Raise the elevators

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What causes drag on an airplane?

The air pressure

Turbulence

Air molecules

The wind speed

The weight of the airplane

Answer

Correct Answer: Air molecules

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How far from the fuselage is the connection point of the wings?

Dihedral angle

Wingtip

Wing root

Base of the wing

Midpoint of the wing

Answer

Correct Answer: Dihedral angle

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The dihedral angle is formed where the wings connect to the what?

Wing

Fuselage

Wingtip

Tail

Answer

Correct Answer: Fuselage

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What is the name of the type of sweepback wing?

Y-wing

Elliptical wing

Delta wing

V-tail

Answer

Correct Answer: Delta wing

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What is the altitude at which a delta wing can fly at twice the speed of sound?

200,000 feet

70,000 feet

100,000 feet

30,000 feet

50,000 feet

Answer

Correct Answer: 70,000 feet

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What do you do when you come into land?

Roll

Increase throttle

Touch down

Decelerate

Decrease throttle

Answer

Correct Answer: Decelerate

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When an airplane comes in to land, it decelerates and rolls to a what?

Stop

Taxiway

Reverse

Left

Right

Answer

Correct Answer: Stop

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When an airplane comes in to land, it decelerates and what?

Rolls to a stop

Falls out of the sky

Flies low to the ground

Keeps rolling

Falls from the sky

Answer

Correct Answer: Rolls to a stop

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What does the term data refer to?

A specific study of a topic

Information that is collected from an experiment

A graph of data

A computer file that stores data

A table of data

Answer

Correct Answer: Information that is collected from an experiment

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