Prelim AMTE 113

• The wings are attached to the fuselage and generate lift during flight.
• Spar is a structural component used in aircraft wings to provide shape, load bearing strength and stiffness.
• The fuselage is the main body of an aircraft, typically made from aluminum alloys.
• The fuselage is the main body of an aircraft, typically made up of several sections.
• Ribs are structural components running spanwise and attached to the spars to form wing panels.
• Ailerons are hinged surfaces located near the trailing edges of an aircraft's wings that control roll about the longitudinal axis.
• The wings' angle of attack is controlled by flaps, which increase lift during takeoff and landing.
• Flaps are hinged sections that extend from the trailing edge of an aircraft wing.
• Ailerons are used to control roll of the aircraft.
• An aircraft is a device that is used, or intended to be used, for flight.
• An airplane is an engine-driven, fixed-wing aircraft that is supported in flight by the dynamic reaction of air against its wings.
• Four Forces of Flight: Thrust, Drag, Lift, and Weight
• Five major components of an aircraft: Powerplant, Landing gear, Wings, Empennage, Fuselage
• Fuselage outside compositions: stressed skin, stringers, wing attachment points, firewall, bulkheads, formers
• Fuselage inside compositions: cockpit, cabin, cargo compartment, attachment points
• Three types of fuselage: truss, monocoque, semimonocoque
• Truss is a framework, typically consisting of rafters, posts, and struts, which usually supports.
• The main drawback of truss structure is its lack of a streamlined shape.
• Monocoque construction uses stressed skin to support almost all loads but is not highly tolerant to deformation of the surface.
• Semimonocoque is a substructure, which consists of bulkheads and/or formers of various sizes and stringers, reinforces the stressed skin by taking some of the bending stress from the fuselage.
• Wing compositions: fuel tank, skin, wing flap, spar, ribs, ailerons, stringers, wing tip
• Flaps increase the lifting force of the

  wing for takeoffs and landings
• The wings are airfoils attached to each side of the fuselage and are the main lifting surfaces that support the airplane in flight.
• Ailerons create aerodynamic forces that cause the airplane to roll.
• RIBS - determine the shape and thickness of the wing.
• Ailerons ; Roll : Elevator ; Pitch : Rudder ; Yaw
• AIRFOIL is any surface designed to obtain lift from air passing over it.
• Flaps is used primarily for landing and take off.
• Flaps increases the angle of descent without increasing airspeed.
• Six types of Flaps: Slotted flap, fowler flap, slotted fowler flap, basic section, plain flap, split flap
• 3 wing types: Monoplane, Biplane, Multiplane
• Five types of Monoplane: Low wing, Mid wing, shoulder wing, High wing, Parasol wing
• Low wing: mounted near or below the bottom of the fuselage.
• Mid wing: mounted approximately halfway up the fuselage.
• Shoulder wing: mounted on the upper part or "shoulder" of the fuselage, slightly below the top of the fuselage. A shoulder wing is sometimes considered a subtype of high wing
• High wing: mounted on the upper fuselage. When contrasted to the shoulder wing, applies to a wing mounted on a projection (such as the cabin roof) above the top of the main fuselage.
• Parasol wing: raised clear above the top of the fuselage, typically by cabane struts, pylon(s) or pedestal(s).
• Monoplane is a type of plane with a single pair of wings.
• Biplane is a plane with a double wings attached.
• Four types of biplane: unequal-span biplane, Sesquiplane, Inverted sesquiplane, Busemann biplane