Aeronautical Question Paper
Aeronautical Question Paper
Aeronautical Question Paper
PART A
1. What are high lift devices? What has prompted their development?
2. What is the basic difference between a hot air balloon and an aircraft?
3. What is equivalent air speed? How is it related to true air speed?
4. What are the functions of ailerons in an aircraft?
5. Define Troposphere and temperature lapse rate.
6. Define aerodynamic centre.
7. Enumerate the stiffener shapes used in aircraft fuselage shell.
8. What are the main advantages and disadvantages of composite materials for
aircraft structures?
9. State the propellant burning configurations possible in solid propellant motors.
10. What are hypergolic propellants? Give an example.
11. Differentiate between anhedral and dihedral.
12. What do you mean by “Absolute ceiling”?
13. What is the purpose of elevator?
14. Enumerate the engine instruments.
15. Define ‘Air foil’.
16. What is ‘aerodynamic center’?
17. Explain the term ‘Empennage’.
18. State the uses of titanium alloys in aircraft industry.
19. Define ‘specific impulse’ of rockets.
20. What is cryogenic propellant? Give example.
21. Distinguish between air breathing propulsion and rocket propulsion.
22. What are the new types of alloys used now-a-days for airframe construction of
modern aircraft?
23. Name any four components of airframe of an airplane and mention their
functions.
24. What is stratopause?
25. Define Mach number.
26. What are the general types of construction of an airplane structure?
27. What are the general considerations for the fuselage design of an airplane. Name
any two.
28. What is the basic operating principle of a piston engine?
29. Define specific impulse of a rocket.
30. What is jet thrust?
31. Differentiate between biplane and monoplane.
32. State the two kinds of aircraft.
33. Differentiate between conventional control and powered control.
34. What are the basic instruments for flying?
35. Define ‘absolute altitude’.
36. Explain ‘Mach Number’.
37. Differentiate between Monocoque construction and semi-monocoque constrction.
38. Enumerate the composite materials.
39. What is ‘Ramjet’ engine?
40. What are the advantages and the disadvantages of rocket propulsion?
PART B