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Major components Flashcards

1
Q

Name the 5 Major Components of the plane

A
  1. Fuselage
  2. Wings
  3. Empennage
  4. Landing gear
  5. Power plant
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Using Aluminium or steel tubing to create a series of triangular shapes bolted together to form a fuselage is known as what?

A

Open Truss
or
Warren Truss

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3
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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?

A

Longeron’s

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4
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In a warren/open truss fuselage, what do you call the smaller tube pieces that strengthen the truss structure?

A
  1. Diagonal web members
  2. Vertical web members
    or
  3. Cross-Bracing members (horizontally attaching the longerons)
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5
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When the skin of the fuselage supports most/all of the flight loads what do you call it?

A

A stressed skin structure AKA

monocoque or semimonocoque construction

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6
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If you were to weld a series of washers inside a cigar tube for a fuselage, what type of fuselage would that be?

A

Monocoque

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

A

Formers

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8
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What do you call the more substantial former behind the cabin, giving shape and strength the the monocoque fuselage?

A

Bulkhead

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9
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Monocoque Fuselages can be strengthened by adding tubing between the formers. What do you call those sections of tubing?

A

Stringers

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10
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Monocoque Fuselages can be strengthened by adding tubing between the formers. What do you call this fuselage design?

A

Semi-Monocoque

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

A

Wing Attachment Points

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12
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What do you call the part of the fuselage that protects the cabin from the engine bay?

A

Firewall

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13
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What is the firewall usually made of?

A

Heat resistant materials such as Stainless Steel

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14
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What is the characteristic shape of a wing called?

A

Airfoil

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15
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Fuselage designs can have wings at the Top/Middle or Bottom. What are they referred to as?

A
  1. High-wing
  2. Mid-wing
  3. Low-wing
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16
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What are airplanes with a single set of wings called?

A

Monoplanes

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17
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What are airplanes with two sets of wings called?

A

Biplanes

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18
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Many high-wing airplanes have external strengtheners which transmit the flight and landing loads to the main fuselage structure. What are they called?

A

Wing Struts

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19
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Wing struts are usually attached approximately halfway out on the wing. What do you call this type of wing structure?

A

Semi-Cantilever

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20
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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?

A

Full Cantilever

21
Q

The 3 principal structural parts of the wing are what?

A
  1. Spars
  2. Ribs
  3. Stringers
22
Q

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?

23
Q

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

24
Q

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

25
Q

What do you call the front of the wing?

A

Leading Edge

26
Q

What do you call the back of the wing?

A

Trailing Edge

27
Q

What do you call the outside edge of the wing?

28
Q

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

29
Q

What do you call the tail section of an airplane?

A

Empennage (M…Pen..idj)

30
Q

What is the vertical bit of the empennage called?

A

Vertical Stabiliser

31
Q

What is the horizontal part of the empennage called?

A

Horizontal Stabiliser

32
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What do you call the movable surface of the vertical stabiliser?

33
Q

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

34
Q

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?

A

Trim Tab’s

35
Q

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

A

Stabilator

36
Q

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

A

Antiservo Tab

37
Q

What do you call the types of landing gear used for landing on:

  1. Water?
  2. Snow?
A
  1. Floats

2. Skis

38
Q

The landing gear consists of how many wheels?

39
Q

Landing gear employing a rear mounted wheel is called what?

A
  1. Conventional Landing Gear
    or
  2. Tail Wheel Airplanes
40
Q

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

A

A Nose Wheel

41
Q

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

A

A Tricycle Gear

42
Q

The Engine and Propeller together are referred to as what?

A

The Power plant

43
Q

The Power Plant is made up of what?

A

The Engine and the Propeller.

44
Q

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

A
  1. Electrical power
  2. Vacuum for instruments
  3. Heat for the cabin
45
Q

What is the engine cover called?

46
Q

Some engines are surrounded, what is this called?

A

A Nacelle (NAR…SELL)

47
Q

What is the purpose of the cowling or nacelle?

A

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

48
Q

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

PGS - Airplane Structure (1 decks)

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