Space Mechanics MCQ

What is the definition of a spacecraft?

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Correct Answer: Any fabricated craft that is launched above earth's atmosphere

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What is the order of the longest and shortest days of the year?

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Correct Answer: Solstices are the longest and shortest days of the year.

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How does a solar sail work?

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Correct Answer: Solar sails use light pressure to propel a ship in the same way that sailing ships use wind.

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What are solar rays?

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Correct Answer: Charged particles (X-rays) blown off from the sun's fusion furnace

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What is a sidereal day?

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Correct Answer: The length of time for the earth to rotate on its axis.

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What is the radius of Saturn?

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Correct Answer: 60,369 kilometers

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What is the 6th-planet of the solar system?

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Correct Answer: Saturn

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What pulls satellites towards the center of a gravity well?

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Correct Answer: The inward pull of gravity

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What is Newton's third law of motion?

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Correct Answer: Every action has an equal and opposite reaction

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Which law states that an object's momentum changes in proportion to the force acting on it?

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Correct Answer: Newton's 2nd-law of motion

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What is Newton's 1st-law of motion?

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Correct Answer: Objects stay in their inertial state unless acted upon by an outside force.

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What is the radius of Neptune?

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Correct Answer: 24,300 kilometers

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What is the 8th-planet of the solar system?

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Correct Answer: Neptune

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What is the Moon's average orbiting speed?

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Correct Answer: 1.0183 kiloms per second

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Mercury is the _____ planet of the solar system?

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Correct Answer: 1st

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What does maxRAY signify?

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Correct Answer: Longest radius of an elliptic orbit

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What is the name of the point at which an orbit's maximum altitude occurs?

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Correct Answer: MaxRAY

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What does Libration mean?

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Correct Answer: Back and forth motion due to the earth's wobble on its axis

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How high can LEO satellites orbit?

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Correct Answer: 800 kilometers

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What does latitude represent?

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Correct Answer: Latitude represents the spherical angle away from the earth's equator.

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What is the dynamic form of energy?

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Correct Answer: Kinetic

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What is the 5th-planet of the solar system?

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Correct Answer: Jupiter

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What does intercept angle signify?

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Correct Answer: The optimal angle to approach a gravity-well.

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What does Interval of thrust measure?

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Correct Answer: The duration of rocket boost needed to achieve the desired delta-V

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What does inclination refer to?

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Correct Answer: The slant of the orbital plane

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What does HEO stand for?

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Correct Answer: High Earth Orbit

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What is the gravitational center?

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Correct Answer: The center of mass of the gravitational attractor.

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What is a Gravitational Attractor?

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Correct Answer: Any massive body that exerts gravity and causes a speeding spacecraft to curve around its attraction.

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What is the acronym for Global Positioning Satellites?

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Correct Answer: GPS

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What does the acronym GP stand for?

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Correct Answer: Gravitational Parameter

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What is GEO an abbreviation for?

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Correct Answer: Geosynchronous orbit

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Friction is caused by the interaction of two surfaces. What does it do to earthside vehicles?

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Correct Answer: Slows them down

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Flightpath angle equals _____ minus the angle of the velocity vector.

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Correct Answer: 90°

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What is flightpath?

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Correct Answer: The tangent to the orbital arc of the satellite in the direction of motion.

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What is equatorial plane?

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Correct Answer: A great circle that extends as far as needed on the plane of the earth's equator.

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Ellipses are the locus of points on a plane where __________

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Correct Answer: Sum of distances from a satellite to each focus point returns a constant value

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What is the Ecliptic?

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Correct Answer: The plane of earth's orbit around the sun.

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What term is used for eccentricity in Discovering Orbits?

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Correct Answer: Exp (expander)

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What is eccentric anomaly?

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Correct Answer: An intermediary angle sweeping from the geometric center of orbit.

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What is the acronym for Dynamic Stretch Speed?

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Correct Answer: DSS

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What is diurnal motion?

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Correct Answer: The observed travel of a satellite or planet over a 24-hour period

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What does deceleration mark?

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Correct Answer: The slowing down of a speeding object.

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What is DCS?

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Correct Answer: Dynamic Circular Speed

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How do we normally reckon a day?

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Correct Answer: From midnight to midnight

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What are cosmic rays?

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Correct Answer: Highly charged elemental particles arriving from deep space.

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What is the Coriolis effect?

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Correct Answer: A spinning environment

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What does the term 'Cislunar' signify?

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Correct Answer: The volume in and around the sun-moon system.

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What is centripetal force?

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Correct Answer: A force that counterbalances the speed of a spacecraft

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What is the name of the force that pushes against the outer frame of a spinning disk?

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Correct Answer: Centrifugal force

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What is the center of gravity?

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Correct Answer: The gravitational center of a massive object

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What imaginary great circle around the earth lies on level with the earth's orbit around the sun?

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Correct Answer: Celestial equator

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Bode's Law is a formula that calculates the average distances of planetary orbits from closest to furthest away from which star?

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Correct Answer: Sun

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From which position is the azimuth angle measured?

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Correct Answer: Zero degrees north

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From which direction does the azimuth angle sweep?

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Correct Answer: Clockwise

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What does "Away angle" refer to?

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Correct Answer: Spacecraft in LEO traveling toward a lunar capture.

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Average speed marks the rate of what?

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Correct Answer: Distance covered during a full orbit

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What is the Autumnal Equinox?

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Correct Answer: The moment of equal daylight and darkness at the end of summer

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What does the acronym AU stand for?

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Correct Answer: Astronomical Unit

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What are asteroids often called?

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Correct Answer: Planetoids

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What does apogee mark?

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Correct Answer: A satellite's far-point of orbit around the earth.

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What is the apoasis?

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Correct Answer: The far-point of orbit around a gravitational attractor

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What does Aphelion mark?

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Correct Answer: A satellite's far-point of orbit around the sun

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What is the astronomer's term for angle?

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Correct Answer: Anomaly

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What does angular momentum measure?

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Correct Answer: Area swept by satellite's current radius around its gravity center

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What is the definition of an angle?

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Correct Answer: The sweeping motion around a central origin.

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What does acceleration signify?

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Correct Answer: The change in the rate of speed

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What is the name of the process in which landing is done on a lakebed runway?

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Correct Answer: Lakebed Landings

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What is Jet Wake Dispersion?

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Correct Answer: The spread of a jet engines exhaust wake following ejection from the jet manifold

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What is the minimum speed required for a flight to be considered hypersonic?

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Correct Answer: More than 5 times the speed of sound.

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What is friction?

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Correct Answer: The force of the air on the aircraft changing the way the craft performs.

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What is the main result of flow separation?

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Correct Answer: Increased drag and less lift

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What does the Flight Control System do?

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Correct Answer: It controls the functionality of the different part of the planes.

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Flaps are usually attached to the leading edge of an airplane's wings to

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Correct Answer: Increase lift or drag

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What is an electrical transient?

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Correct Answer: Alternating magnetic current which reduces the loss of efficiency

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What is the definition of dihedral?

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Correct Answer: The upward or downward inclination of an aircraft wing from true horizontal

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What is the name of the process whereby flight is controlled by data sent from the command?

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Correct Answer: Data Maneuvers

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What is the system that allows the pilot to fly the vehicle?

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Correct Answer: Control System

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What are contract standards?

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Correct Answer: Requirements an aircraft must fulfill in order to get a contract to produce it.

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What is a Climbout profile?

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Correct Answer: The path of an airplane as the pilot executes climbing maneuvers

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What is the transparent enclosure over the cockpit of an aircraft called?

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Correct Answer: Canopy

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What is cabin pressure?

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Correct Answer: The atmospheric pressure within the cabin, controlled to reduce physical strain on the pilot.

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What is the purpose of a bulkhead?

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Correct Answer: To resist pressure

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What is the boundary layer?

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Correct Answer: The thin layer of air close to the surface of an aircraft.

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What is a biplane?

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Correct Answer: An airplane having two pairs of wings fixed at different levels

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What is a barometer used for?

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Correct Answer: Measuring atmospheric pressure

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What does axial-flow mean?

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Correct Answer: Extending in a direction essentially perpendicular to the plane of a cyclic structure

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What is the primary power unit of the aircraft?

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Correct Answer: Auxiliary-Power-Unit

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What causes atmospheric turbulence?

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Correct Answer: Variations in atmospheric pressure from spot to spot

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What is the term for aircraft once used by the military that are now used for testing?

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Correct Answer: Armed service discards

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What is the angle between the chord of the wing and the relative wind called?

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Correct Answer: Angle of Attack

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What is the term for the vertical distance between an aircraft and mean sea level?

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Correct Answer: Altitude

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What is an airfoil?

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Correct Answer: A body designed to provide a desired reaction force when in motion relative to the surrounding air.

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What term describes the primary aircraft angles in the state vector?

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Correct Answer: Attitude

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What is an aircraft?

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Correct Answer: A machine or structure capable of flight in air and regarded as a vehicle

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What is air flow?

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Correct Answer: The motion of air currents around an object as it moves through the air

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What is the purpose of an aileron?

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Correct Answer: To control the plane's rolling and banking movements

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What is the function of an aileron?

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Correct Answer: To impart a rolling motion to an airplane wing

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What is the Aeroelastic Effect?

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Correct Answer: Flexibility of a lifting body

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What is Aerial Towing?

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Correct Answer: Pulling a glider or other object through the air by means of an aircraft

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What does AFTI stand for?

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Correct Answer: Advanced Fighter Technology Integration

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What is acetylene used for?

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Correct Answer: Metal welding and cutting

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What is the meaning of Ablator?

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Correct Answer: The dissipation of heat generated by atmospheric friction

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What does the ablative denote?

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Correct Answer: The removal of something, especially through abrasion, cutting, or evaporation.

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What was the AAF Bell Project designed to do?

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Correct Answer: Gather data at transonic speeds

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What is the name of the cone shaped assembly behind a turbojet engine through which the exhaust gases are discharged?

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Correct Answer: Tail-Cone

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What is laminar flow?

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Correct Answer: Laminar flow is parallel flow of air in the boundary layer to the surface of an airplane.

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What is Boundary-Layer?

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Correct Answer: A thin layer of air next to an airfoil of an aircraft in flight

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What is Boundary Layer Flow?

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Correct Answer: Noise created when a fluid moves over a solid surface.

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What is fluid flow where particles move in a disoriented matter in an irregular path resulting in an exchange of momentum called?

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Correct Answer: Atmospheric Turbulence

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What is the angle of attack?

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Correct Answer: The angle at which the air hits the wing of an airplane.

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What is the study of the motions of artificial satellites and space vehicles moving under the influence of forces such as gravity, atmospheric drag, thrust, etc called?

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Correct Answer: Space Mechanics or Orbital mechanics

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