Major components

Question 1

Name the 5 Major Components of the plane

Answer 1

1. Fuselage
2. Wings
3. Empennage
4. Landing gear
5. Power plant

Question 2

Using Aluminium or steel tubing to create a series of triangular shapes bolted together to form a fuselage is known as what?

Answer 2

Open Truss
or
Warren Truss

Question 3

In a warren/open truss fuselage, what do you call the long tube pieces that go from the front to the tail of the plane?

Answer 3

Longeron’s

Question 4

In a warren/open truss fuselage, what do you call the smaller tube pieces that strengthen the truss structure?

Answer 4

1. Diagonal web members
2. Vertical web members
   or
3. Cross-Bracing members (horizontally attaching the longerons)

Question 5

When the skin of the fuselage supports most/all of the flight loads what do you call it?

Answer 5

A stressed skin structure AKA

monocoque or semimonocoque construction

Question 6

If you were to weld a series of washers inside a cigar tube for a fuselage, what type of fuselage would that be?

Answer 6

Monocoque

Question 7

What do you call the lighter strengtheners (not stringers) adding rigidity to a monocoque fuselage?

Answer 7

Formers

Question 8

What do you call the more substantial former behind the cabin, giving shape and strength the the monocoque fuselage?

Answer 8

Bulkhead

Question 9

Monocoque Fuselages can be strengthened by adding tubing between the formers. What do you call those sections of tubing?

Answer 9

Stringers

Question 10

Monocoque Fuselages can be strengthened by adding tubing between the formers. What do you call this fuselage design?

Answer 10

Semi-Monocoque

Question 11

What do you call the securing points of the fuselage that take the wings?

Answer 11

Wing Attachment Points

Question 12

What do you call the part of the fuselage that protects the cabin from the engine bay?

Answer 12

Firewall

Question 13

What is the firewall usually made of?

Answer 13

Heat resistant materials such as Stainless Steel

Question 14

What is the characteristic shape of a wing called?

Answer 14

Airfoil

Question 15

Fuselage designs can have wings at the Top/Middle or Bottom. What are they referred to as?

Answer 15

1. High-wing
2. Mid-wing
3. Low-wing

Question 16

What are airplanes with a single set of wings called?

Answer 16

Monoplanes

Question 17

What are airplanes with two sets of wings called?

Answer 17

Biplanes

Question 18

Many high-wing airplanes have external strengtheners which transmit the flight and landing loads to the main fuselage structure. What are they called?

Answer 18

Wing Struts

Question 19

Wing struts are usually attached approximately halfway out on the wing. What do you call this type of wing structure?

Answer 19

Semi-Cantilever

Question 20

A few high-wing and most low-wing airplanes have no wing struts in their wing designed to carry the loads. What do you call this wing design?

Answer 20

Full Cantilever

Question 21

The 3 principal structural parts of the wing are what?

Answer 21

1. Spars
2. Ribs
3. Stringers

Question 22

Within a wing there is an I beam the whole length that gives the wing strength and attaches it to the plane. What is it called?

Answer 22

Spar

Question 23

What do you call the wing sections that create the wing shape and thickness?

Answer 23

Ribs

Question 24

What do you call the thinner strips that run along/join the ribs together the whole length of the wing?

Answer 24

Stringers

Question 25

What do you call the front of the wing?

Answer 25

Leading Edge

Question 26

What do you call the back of the wing?

Answer 26

Trailing Edge

Question 27

What do you call the outside edge of the wing?

Answer 27

Wing Tip

Question 28

What do you call the covering material of a plane (fuselage, wing, etc)?

Answer 28

Skin

Question 29

What do you call the tail section of an airplane?

Answer 29

Empennage (M...Pen..idj)

Question 30

What is the vertical bit of the empennage called?

Answer 30

Vertical Stabiliser

Question 31

What is the horizontal part of the empennage called?

Answer 31

Horizontal Stabiliser

Question 32

What do you call the movable surface of the vertical stabiliser?

Answer 32

Rudder

Question 33

What do you call the movable surface of the horizontal stabiliser?

Answer 33

Elevator

Question 34

What do you call the mini rudder (attached to the rudder), mini elevator (attached to the elevator) and mini aileron's (attached to the aileron's) used to reduce control pressures?

Answer 34

Trim Tab's

Question 35

What do you call the second type of empennage with a one-piece horizontal stabiliser that pivots from a central hinge point?

Answer 35

Stabilator

Question 36

What do you call the trim tab that runs most of the width of a Stabilator?

Answer 36

Antiservo Tab

Question 37

What do you call the types of landing gear used for landing on: 1. Water? 2. Snow?

Answer 37

1. Floats | 2. Skis

Question 38

The landing gear consists of how many wheels?

Answer 38

3

Question 39

Landing gear employing a rear mounted wheel is called what?

Answer 39

1. Conventional Landing Gear or 2. Tail Wheel Airplanes

Question 40

When the third wheel is located on the nose, that 'wheel' is called what?

Answer 40

A Nose Wheel

Question 41

When the third wheel is located on the nose, the 'design' is referred to as what?

Answer 41

A Tricycle Gear

Question 42

The Engine and Propeller together are referred to as what?

Answer 42

The Power plant

Question 43

The Power Plant is made up of what?

Answer 43

The Engine and the Propeller.

Question 44

The primary function of the engine is to provide the power to turn the propeller. It also does 3 other things, what are they?

Answer 44

1. Electrical power 2. Vacuum for instruments 3. Heat for the cabin

Question 45

What is the engine cover called?

Answer 45

Cowling

Question 46

Some engines are surrounded, what is this called?

Answer 46

A Nacelle (NAR...SELL)

Question 47

What is the purpose of the cowling or nacelle?

Answer 47

To streamline the flow of air around the engine and to help cool the engine by ducting air around the cylinders

Question 48

What is the forward acting force created by the propeller called?

Answer 48

Thrust