Chapter 3 Aircraft Construction
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3 Types of Products Certified Aircraft, Aircraft Engines, Propellers designed to airworthiness standards for
no unsafe features
Different standards apply to different products under 14 CFR
Special Classes Aircraft not containing their own airworthiness standards
Type Certificate Issued for a product when meets airworthiness standards
TCDS is generated specifying the operational characteristics of the product
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Light Sport Aircraft Not designed to Airworthiness standards but a consensus of standards
Issued as a whole not by part
Conformity Inspection/ Airworthiness Cert Parts inspected to an approved design and issued an airworthiness cert as
entire aircraft meets design standards and remains valid if maintained
properly
Standard or Special
Fuselage the main body of an aircraft and structural connection for other parts of the
aircraft
Monocoque and Seminocoque
Truss type on older aircraft
Wings Airfoils attached to each side of the fuselage that serve as the main lifting
surfaces
Mono= 1 set Bi= 2 sets
Spars, Ribs, Stringers inside with flaps ailerons attached to trailing edges
Wing Struts Equipped to high wings transmitting landing loads to fuselage
Semi Cantilever= extend halfway out on wing
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Ailerons/Flaps Ailerons extend from midpoint out to tip
Flaps extend outward from fuselage to midpoint and move downward and
backward for extra lift at a given AOA
Empennage the entire tail group, including fixed surfaces, such as the vertical and
horizontal stabilizers, and moveable surfaces, such as the rudder, elevator,
and trim tabs
Trim Tabs Small moveable portions of trailing edge of a control surface to reduce
control pressures
Stabilator One piece horizontal stabilizer that pivots from a hinge point not requiring
an elevator
Antiservo tab extending across trailing edge
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