ASTB E UPDATED TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Recreational Pilot - ✔✔individual who may fly aircraft of up to 180 horsepower and
flies in day time for pleasure only
✔✔Private pilot - ✔✔fly for pleasure and personal business, generally without being
payed
✔✔Sport pilot - ✔✔authorized to fly only light sport aircraft
✔✔cowling - ✔✔covering of a vehicles engine
✔✔29.92 - ✔✔is teh standard sea level pressure, in inchers of mercury
- it is used to determine altitude, the pressure lapse rale is 1"/1000ft
✔✔density is directly affected by what? - ✔✔pressure, temperature, and humidity
✔✔wing tip vertices - ✔✔circular patterns of roatating air left behind an generates lift.
- avoid flying through another aircrafts flight path
- avoid following on a similar flight path
✔✔Ground Affect- - ✔✔the increased lift and decreased drag that wings generate when
they are close to the ground
✔✔P-factors - ✔✔aerodynamic phenomenon experienced by moring propellor
✔✔torque reaction - ✔✔for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction (aka
newtons third law)
, ✔✔Corkscrew effect - ✔✔the propeller gives a corkscrew or spirolling rotation to the
slipstream causing a sideways force on the vertical tail surface
✔✔Mach Ranges - ✔✔subsonic - Mach .< 75
transonic- Mach .75-1.20
supersonic- Mach 1.20-5.00
Hypersonic- Mach 5-10
✔✔HISTORY - ✔✔
✔✔Joseph Miechel Montogolfier and Jacques -E tienne Montogofiel - ✔✔flew the first
hot air baloon in 1783
✔✔Eugene Ely was - ✔✔the first to fake off and land on a carrier ship, (the USS
birmingham, in 1911
✔✔The first recognized powered, manned flight was performed by who at Kill Devil Hill,
NC on Dec 17, 1903 - ✔✔the Wright Brothers at
✔✔The first non-stop transatlantic crossing was completed in - ✔✔June 14-15 1919
✔✔Charles Lendbergh - ✔✔made the first solo flight across the atlantic in 1927
✔✔Heinrich Focke - ✔✔designed the Fock-Wolf Fwrl in 1934 with the first succesful
flight being in 1936, June 26 (1st practical helicopter design)
✔✔De Havill and Vampire - ✔✔First Carrier landing by a Jet was perfomed by them...
which can travel at a top speed of 548 mph
✔✔The Berlin Airlift refers to - ✔✔the massive airlift of supplies of essential goods to
West Berline From June 1998- September 1999
✔✔Sputni (soveiet staelite) was launched when - ✔✔was launched on OCt 4th 1967
✔✔John Glenn was - ✔✔the first american to orbit the earth in 1958
✔✔Balentina Tereshkova was - ✔✔the first female in space in 1963
✔✔Navy's B. day v.s. Marine Corps Birthday - ✔✔Navy- OCT 13, 1775
Marine- Nov 10, 1775
✔✔Major Edward H. White II first_____ - ✔✔american austronaut to walk in space on
June 3, 1965... he stepped out of the G emini 4
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Recreational Pilot - ✔✔individual who may fly aircraft of up to 180 horsepower and
flies in day time for pleasure only
✔✔Private pilot - ✔✔fly for pleasure and personal business, generally without being
payed
✔✔Sport pilot - ✔✔authorized to fly only light sport aircraft
✔✔cowling - ✔✔covering of a vehicles engine
✔✔29.92 - ✔✔is teh standard sea level pressure, in inchers of mercury
- it is used to determine altitude, the pressure lapse rale is 1"/1000ft
✔✔density is directly affected by what? - ✔✔pressure, temperature, and humidity
✔✔wing tip vertices - ✔✔circular patterns of roatating air left behind an generates lift.
- avoid flying through another aircrafts flight path
- avoid following on a similar flight path
✔✔Ground Affect- - ✔✔the increased lift and decreased drag that wings generate when
they are close to the ground
✔✔P-factors - ✔✔aerodynamic phenomenon experienced by moring propellor
✔✔torque reaction - ✔✔for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction (aka
newtons third law)
, ✔✔Corkscrew effect - ✔✔the propeller gives a corkscrew or spirolling rotation to the
slipstream causing a sideways force on the vertical tail surface
✔✔Mach Ranges - ✔✔subsonic - Mach .< 75
transonic- Mach .75-1.20
supersonic- Mach 1.20-5.00
Hypersonic- Mach 5-10
✔✔HISTORY - ✔✔
✔✔Joseph Miechel Montogolfier and Jacques -E tienne Montogofiel - ✔✔flew the first
hot air baloon in 1783
✔✔Eugene Ely was - ✔✔the first to fake off and land on a carrier ship, (the USS
birmingham, in 1911
✔✔The first recognized powered, manned flight was performed by who at Kill Devil Hill,
NC on Dec 17, 1903 - ✔✔the Wright Brothers at
✔✔The first non-stop transatlantic crossing was completed in - ✔✔June 14-15 1919
✔✔Charles Lendbergh - ✔✔made the first solo flight across the atlantic in 1927
✔✔Heinrich Focke - ✔✔designed the Fock-Wolf Fwrl in 1934 with the first succesful
flight being in 1936, June 26 (1st practical helicopter design)
✔✔De Havill and Vampire - ✔✔First Carrier landing by a Jet was perfomed by them...
which can travel at a top speed of 548 mph
✔✔The Berlin Airlift refers to - ✔✔the massive airlift of supplies of essential goods to
West Berline From June 1998- September 1999
✔✔Sputni (soveiet staelite) was launched when - ✔✔was launched on OCt 4th 1967
✔✔John Glenn was - ✔✔the first american to orbit the earth in 1958
✔✔Balentina Tereshkova was - ✔✔the first female in space in 1963
✔✔Navy's B. day v.s. Marine Corps Birthday - ✔✔Navy- OCT 13, 1775
Marine- Nov 10, 1775
✔✔Major Edward H. White II first_____ - ✔✔american austronaut to walk in space on
June 3, 1965... he stepped out of the G emini 4