AFOQT Pilot EXAM PRETEST QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY

AFOQT Pilot EXAM PRETEST QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY 2 Types of Aviation - ANSWER Civilian & Military Fixed Wing Examples - ANSWER Fighter jets, bombers, civilian jets and corporate airliners Rotary-Wing Examples - ANSWER Helicopters, gyro-copters, and tilt-rotor flying machines Aircraft - ANSWER Machine supported aloft by lift created by air flowing across airfoil, wings, propeller, rotor blades or buoyancy Civilian Aircraft categorized as - ANSWER normal, utility, acrobatic, commuter, transport, manned free balloons, special classes Military aircraft are categorized based off - ANSWER of the mission that they perform Flaps - ANSWER increase wings surface area and augment (increase) lift to reduce air speed Spoiler - ANSWER Hinged panels that move upward after landing to destroy lift Air Brakes (Speed Brakes) - ANSWER Decelerate the aircraft in flight and increase the rate of descent Spar - ANSWER The main structural member inside each wing These run the length of the wing Ribs - ANSWER are attached perpendicularly to the spar to provide more support and strength Wings of most planes that fly below the speed of sound - ANSWER Are shaped perpendicular Wings of most planes that fly above the speed of sound - ANSWER are swept back to delay the drag of air compressibility. Swept wings increase the performance on high performance planes Delta wing - ANSWER This is a triangular shaped wing Variable Geometry wings - ANSWER The wings are positioned perpendicular at take off, landing and low air speeds, then move to a swept position when flying at high speeds Planes that take off and land on water have - ANSWER Floats. They will take off and land on both water and land because they have retractable wheels 4 main aerodynamic forces acting on an aircraft when airborne - ANSWER weight lift thrust drag Total weight force acts through the - ANSWER Center of gravity Lift - ANSWER The force that counteracts the weight and causes the machine to rise Produced by air foils Thrust - ANSWER The aircraft's forward force. This is created by its engines Drag - ANSWER What opposes thrust Rearward acting force caused by air flow passing over the aircraft's structure and becoming disrupted Total drag - ANSWER Sum of its profile drag, induced drag and parasite drag Induced drag - ANSWER Product of lift. Stationary aircraft to not produce this. Parasite drag - ANSWER parts of the aircraft that do not contribute to the production of lift produce this when the machine is moving. (Nose, fuselage, landing gear, rudder) Bernoulli's Principle - ANSWER Increase of the inviscid flow of fluid resulted in a decrease of static pressure exerted by the fluid Conservation of mass - ANSWER A fluid's mass cannot be created or destroyed within a flow of interest. Conservation of momentum (Mass x Velocity) - ANSWER cannot be created or destroyed. It can be changed trough applied force. It is conserved in all 3 directions (laterally, longitudinally and in terms of yaw) at the same time Newton's First law of motion - ANSWER A stationary object remains at rest and an object in motion continues to move at the same rate and in the same direction unless acted upon by another force Newton's Second law of motion - ANSWER Acceleration results from a force being applied to an object. The heavier the body, the greater amount of force needed to accelerate i