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AFOQT – Questions And Verified SolutionsFixed-Wing Aircraft ✔ Ans - Examples: Fighter jets, bombers, airliners, corporate jets
Rotary-Wing Aircraft ✔ Ans - Examples: Helicopters, gyrocopters, tilt-
rotor flying machines
Airfoil ✔ Ans - A structure with curved surfaces designed to give the most favorable ratio of lift to drag in flight, used as the basic form of the wings, fins, and horizontal stabilizer of most aircraft
Rotor Blades ✔ Ans - The long airfoil that rotates to provide the lift that supports a helicopter in the air
Fuselage ✔ Ans - Nose section, including cockpit and cabin
Empennage ✔ Ans - Consists of vertical stabilizer and hinged rudder
Stabilitor ✔ Ans - Horizontal stabilizer-elevator
Flaps and Slats ✔ Ans - Used to increase wing's surface area and deflect airflow downward, which augments lift at reduced speeds; this allows for planes to land/takeoff at slower speeds, therefore with a shorter runway
Spoilers ✔ Ans - Hinged panels that move upward after landing, destroying residual lift to put plane's full weight on its landing gear to maximize tire friction on runway, enhancing deceleration
Air Brakes ✔ Ans - Help decelerate aircraft on the ground and in flight increase the rate of descent
Spar ✔ Ans - Main structural member inside each wing
Ribs ✔ Ans - Attached to spar(s) to provide additional support and strength Perpendicular Wing ✔ Ans - Wings that are perpendicular to the aircraft's longitudinal (nose-to-tail) axis
Swept Wing ✔ Ans - Wings angled further back to delay drag associated with air compressibility at high subsonic speeds
Delta Wing ✔ Ans - Wings shaped like a triangle
Variable-Geometry Wing ✔ Ans - Wings which can change shape; pilot swings wings forward to be roughly perpendicular to fuselage during takeoff, landing, and low speed flight; pilot swings wings back when flying at high subsonic, transonic, and supersonic velocities
Aileron ✔ Ans - Hinged flight control surface which moves up and down to control plane's rolling motion around longitudinal axis and perform banking turns
Trim Tab ✔ Ans - Small surfaces connected to the trailing edge of a larger airfoil surface used to control the trim of the controls
Piston ✔ Ans - A disk or short cylinder fitting closely within a tube in which it moves up and down against a liquid or gas, used in an internal combustion engine to derive motion
Turbine Engine ✔ Ans - Reaction engine discharging a fast-moving jet that generates thrust by jet propulsion
Turboprop ✔ Ans - Turbine engine that drives an aircraft propeller
Turbojet ✔ Ans - Airbreathing jet engine, consists of a gas turbine with a
propelling nozzle
Turbofan ✔ Ans - A gas turbine engine which achieves mechanical energy from combustion ducted fan that uses the mechanical energy from the gas turbine to accelerate air rearwards
Afterburner ✔ Ans - Injects additional fuel into the jet pipe downstream of (i.e. after) the turbine; significantly increases thrust at the cost of very
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