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AMS 274 Final Review Questions and
Answers
What did whittle do ?
Ans: Patented first turbine engine in 1936
What was whittles biggest problem
Ans: The combustor
What was whittles engine called
Ans: the w-1
What did moss do ?
Ans: Invented turbosupercharger
Newton's Third Law
Ans: For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction
What was the aerocomets engine
Ans: first low turbo jet
What was the aerocomets flight time
Ans: 30 Mins
never used in combat
What was significant about the gloster meteor ?
Ans: a British aircraft that was successfully used against the V1 bomber
General electric
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Ans: Developed first American prototype turbojet (GE-I-A)
CFM56 and Leap Engine
Next gen in the adaptive cycle
What kind of engine is the CFM 56
Ans: High bypass turbofan engine
Pratt and Whitney
Ans: JT3C engine on the 707 during roll
JT9D powered 747
Barred from making turbine engines during WW2
What was the first successful airliner in the united States
Ans: the boeing 707
Bernoulli's Principle
Ans: air is incompressible at subsonic flow rates
Newtons laws
Ans: 2nd. force = mass x acceleration
3rd. for ever acting force there is an equal and opposite reacting force
One in one out
Ans: one unit of mass airflow in and one unit of mass airflow out
Centrifugal Compressors
Ans: smaller engines
radial outflow compressor
Advantages of centrifugal compressors
© 2025 All rights reserved
AMS 274 Final Review Questions and
Answers
What did whittle do ?
Ans: Patented first turbine engine in 1936
What was whittles biggest problem
Ans: The combustor
What was whittles engine called
Ans: the w-1
What did moss do ?
Ans: Invented turbosupercharger
Newton's Third Law
Ans: For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction
What was the aerocomets engine
Ans: first low turbo jet
What was the aerocomets flight time
Ans: 30 Mins
never used in combat
What was significant about the gloster meteor ?
Ans: a British aircraft that was successfully used against the V1 bomber
General electric
© 2025 All rights reserved
, 2 | Page
Ans: Developed first American prototype turbojet (GE-I-A)
CFM56 and Leap Engine
Next gen in the adaptive cycle
What kind of engine is the CFM 56
Ans: High bypass turbofan engine
Pratt and Whitney
Ans: JT3C engine on the 707 during roll
JT9D powered 747
Barred from making turbine engines during WW2
What was the first successful airliner in the united States
Ans: the boeing 707
Bernoulli's Principle
Ans: air is incompressible at subsonic flow rates
Newtons laws
Ans: 2nd. force = mass x acceleration
3rd. for ever acting force there is an equal and opposite reacting force
One in one out
Ans: one unit of mass airflow in and one unit of mass airflow out
Centrifugal Compressors
Ans: smaller engines
radial outflow compressor
Advantages of centrifugal compressors
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