ASTB-E Exam Questions and Answers
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Components of a Turbojet engine - ✔✔including Air-intake, Low-pressure compressor,
High-pressure compressor,
Burner, High-pressure turbine, Low-pressure turbine, and exhaust nozzle
Be able to draw Wing types - ✔✔Straight rectangular wing, straight elliptical or
rounded wing, straight tapered wing, Forward tapered wing, backward tapered wing.
slightly swept wing, moderately swept wing, sharply swept wing, simple deltawing,
and complex delta wing.
Air Foil - ✔✔Leading edge
Chord line
Chamber
mean chamber line
trailing edge
thickness
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What is the Dihedral angle - ✔✔Angle of wing in comparison to the ground going away
from the aircraft slanted upward...
- Low wing aircraft have a higher center of gravy
- low wing aircraft have a larger dihedral angle
Tail assembly/ epmpennage - ✔✔Horizontal stabilizer, Vertical Stabilizer, Rudder,
Trim Tabs, Elevator
how do air folils produce lift? - ✔✔higher pressure under the wing than under it
three axis of flight and what they are! - ✔✔Pitch - tilting up or down
Yawing - plane turning to the left or right, but NOT rolling
Roll- plan spinning to left/ right while still flying strait
flight instruments - ✔✔
altimeter - ✔✔tells altitude
airspeed indicator - ✔✔indicates airspeed
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virgule speed indicator - ✔✔rate of climb and descending
turn coordinator - ✔✔tells both roll and yaw
altitude indicator - ✔✔how high from SEA LEVEL
KNOW THE THREE LEVERS - ✔✔class 1-
fulcrum in middle (ex: pushing down on a sea saw)
class 2- fulcrum on far side effort on opposite side and load in the middle (ex: wheel
barrow_)
class 3- fulcrom on top effort in the middle and load on opposite side (ex: crain lift)
KNOW CLOUDS - ✔✔below 6500ft (low clouds)
- Stratus
- Stratocumulus
- Nimbostratus
6500- 20,000ft (middle clouds)
- Altocumulus
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_Altostraus
above 20,000ft (high clouds)
- cirrostratus
- cirrocumulus
cirus
*****HAS AN ANVIL TOP AND VIRTICAL DEVELOPMENT AND COVERS LOW-
HIGH
- Cumulonimbus
***** Flat bottom cloud- (low cloud) cumulus
how to take off/ land - ✔✔take off into the wind and land into the wind
know the 6 flaps - ✔✔basic
plain
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