AMS 274 Final Review Exam Questions with
Answers
What did whittle do ? - -Patented first turbine engine in 1936
-What was whittles biggest problem - -The combustor
-What was whittles engine called - -the w-1
-What did moss do ? - -Invented turbosupercharger
-Newton's Third Law - -For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction
-What was the aerocomets engine - -first low turbo jet
-What was the aerocomets flight time - -30 Mins
never used in combat
-What was significant about the gloster meteor ? - -a British aircraft that was successfully
used against the V1 bomber
-General electric - -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 - -High bypass turbofan engine
-Pratt and Whitney - -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 - -the boeing 707
-Bernoulli's Principle - -air is incompressible at subsonic flow rates
-Newtons laws - -2nd. force = mass x acceleration
3rd. for ever acting force there is an equal and opposite reacting force
-One in one out - -one unit of mass airflow in and one unit of mass airflow out
-Centrifugal Compressors - -smaller engines
radial outflow compressor
-Advantages of centrifugal compressors - -High pressure rise 10:1 and 15: in dual stage
Answers
What did whittle do ? - -Patented first turbine engine in 1936
-What was whittles biggest problem - -The combustor
-What was whittles engine called - -the w-1
-What did moss do ? - -Invented turbosupercharger
-Newton's Third Law - -For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction
-What was the aerocomets engine - -first low turbo jet
-What was the aerocomets flight time - -30 Mins
never used in combat
-What was significant about the gloster meteor ? - -a British aircraft that was successfully
used against the V1 bomber
-General electric - -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 - -High bypass turbofan engine
-Pratt and Whitney - -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 - -the boeing 707
-Bernoulli's Principle - -air is incompressible at subsonic flow rates
-Newtons laws - -2nd. force = mass x acceleration
3rd. for ever acting force there is an equal and opposite reacting force
-One in one out - -one unit of mass airflow in and one unit of mass airflow out
-Centrifugal Compressors - -smaller engines
radial outflow compressor
-Advantages of centrifugal compressors - -High pressure rise 10:1 and 15: in dual stage
