Main components

Question 1

What are the 6 main components

Answer 1

Fuselage
Wings
Tail Assembly
Flight Controls
Landing Gear
Engine and Propeller

Question 2

What is the fuselage

Answer 2

Body of the airplane. connected to the wings, tail, engine, and landing gear

Many modern training crafts fuselage is semi-monocoque/ light framework covered in skin (Usually Aluminium)

Question 3

Name 3 parts of the wings

Answer 3

Spars - one or more internal spars attached to the fuselage - carry major loads

Ribs - Roughly perpendicular to spars provide the aerofoil shape (help with aerodynamics) and stiffen the skin

Stringers - Assist ribs running parallel to the spars

Question 4

What are the wings designed to do

Answer 4

Generate lift and are exposed to heavy loads

Question 5

Monoplanes + Biplanes ?

Answer 5

Monoplanes are designed with a single set of wings making them either high-wing, low-wing, mid-wing

Question 6

Describe a monocoque structure?

Answer 6

Designed where most of the weight is carried by the skin of the aircraft

Question 7

What do the elevators control?

Answer 7

Pitch (up/down) on the lateral axis

Question 8

What do the ailerons control?

Answer 8

Roll (left/right) on the longitudinal axis

Question 9

What does the rudder control?

Answer 9

Yaw (twist) on the normal axis?

Question 10

Where do the lateral axis, longitudinal axis and normal axis intersect?

Answer 10

Centre of gravity of the Aircraft

Question 11

Components of the cylinder

Answer 11

Inlet/Outlet valve
Piston
Spark plugs
Combustion chamber