Please read the following definitions for various parts of an aircraft.

Then try to match the

definition to the respective item in the table below.

1. The part of the airplane fuselage located behind the wing centre box but in front of
the tail cone.
2. Rotation of an aircraft about its lateral axis. Or the distance between the centres of
adjacent rivets installed in the same row.
3. A surface designed to obtain a useful reaction, or lift, from air passing over it.
Propeller blades and helicopter rotors are examples.
4. The removable cover which encloses an aircraft engine.
5. The tail section of an airplane. It stabilizes the airplane in flight and causes it to rotate
about its vertical and lateral axes. An inverted cruciform tail section consists of a
fixed vertical fin with a movable rudder attached to its trailing edge, and a fixed
horizontal stabilizer with a movable elevator hinged to its trailing edge on both sides
of the fuselage.
Another type of tail section, the V-tail, has only two fixed and two movable surfaces,
arranged in the shape of the letter V. These two surfaces stabilize the airplane and
rotate it about its two axes in the same way as the three fixed and three movable
surfaces.
6. The fixed conical fairing centred in the exhaust stream immediately aft of the last-
stage turbine wheel. It prevents turbulence and prevent the hot gases from
circulating over the rear face of the turbine wheel.
The opening in the tail pipe of a gas turbine through which the exhaust gases leave
the engine. The area of the exhaust nozzle is critical, as it affects the back-pressure
on the turbine, and this in turn affects the engine RPM, the exhaust gas temperature,
and the thrust the engine produces.
7. The configuration of an aircraft empennage in which the horizontal surfaces are on
top of the vertical surfaces, in the form of a letter T.
8. Rotation of an aircraft about its longitudinal axis.
9. The part of the airplane fuselage located in front of the wing centre box, includes the
nose section.
10. A part of a structure or machine whose primary purpose is to produce a smooth
surface or a smooth junction where two surfaces join.
11. The fixed horizontal surface on the tail of a conventional airplane. It is usually
adjustable in to vary the down-load produced by the tail. This allows the airplane to
fly hands-off at any desired air speed.
12. The body, or central structural component of an airplane. The passengers and flight
crew are housed in it, and the wings and tail attach to it. In most single-engine
airplanes, the engine and landing gear attach to this body.
13. Cause an aircraft to rotate about its three axes. In an airplane, they are ailerons,
elevators and rudder.
14. To drop something from an aircraft or spacecraft in flight. Fuel is dumped from the
aircraft fuel tanks to lower the weight of the aircraft to a weight approved for
landing.
15. The part of the aircraft structure that supports the aircraft when it is not flying. For
operation from runaways and dry ground it uses wheels. Operation from snow and
ice is done with skis, and operation from water is done using floats.
16. An enclosed compartment in an aircraft in which an engine is mounted. Most
multiengine propeller-driven airplanes have engines mounted on the leading edge of
the wings far enough out that the propeller is clear of the fuselage.
Multiengine jet-propelled airplanes often have their engines mounted on the side of
the aircraft between the wing and the tail, or hanging below the wings.
17. Coloured lights on an aircraft used at night to show the direction the aircraft is
moving. A red light is installed on the left wing tip, a green light is installed on the
right wing tip, and a white light is installed on the tail of the aircraft.
High intensity spotlights mounted on an aircraft and aimed in such a direction that
they shine on the runaway when the aircraft is on the final approach for landing.
18. A structural partition that divides the fuselage of an aircraft into compartments or
bays. It strengthens the structure and acts as a wall. See also frame, longer, stringer.
19. The structure that holds an engine nacelle or pod to the wing or fuselage of a jet-
propelled aircraft.
20. That portion of the take-off of an airplane equipped with a tricycle landing gear in
which the airplane has gained enough speed for the nose wheel to be lifted to
increase the angle of attack and thus the lift. The required speed is identified as the
Vr speed.
21. A strong, electrically transparent housing, used to enclose a radar antenna and
protect it from the wind and weather.
22. The main spanwise, load-carrying structural member in an airplane wing.
23. A small deflector that can be raised into the air flowing over an airfoil. When it is
raised into the airstream, it disturbs the smooth flow of air and destroys part of the
lift the airfoil is producing. They are used on high-performance sailplanes to decrease
the lift so they will not float during landing. It is also a type of secondary control on a
airplane, a control which does not rotate the aircraft about any of its three axes. It
produces drag without affecting lift, or causing the aircraft to pitch. The drag they
produce allows a highly streamlined airplane to descent at a steep angle without
picking up excessive speed.
24. The back edge of an airfoil, such as a wing, a helicopter rotor or a propeller blade. It is
the edge that passes through the air last.
25. A device attached to an aircraft control surface to discharge static electricity into the
air. Static electricity builds up as air flows across the surface. If it were not
discharged, it could build up high enough to cause a spark to jump between the
surface and the main structure. Sparks of this type can cause radio interference.
 Some of these devices use carbon-impregnated cotton wicks to pick up the static
electricity and discharge it off the ends of the cotton fibres. Others have needle-sharp
points from which the static electricity is discharged.
26. A special light that flashes with a brilliant, short-duration flash. A variable frequency
oscillator controls the light so it flashes at any required interval. These kinds of light
are used to study the motion of rotating or vibrating bodies. The light is shone on the
object, and the frequency of the flashes is adjusted until the object appears to stand
still or move in slow motion.
27. The cone-shaped section of the exhaust system of a gas turbine engine used to
produce the correct change in area of the duct through which the exhaust gases
leave the engine.
28. Belongs to the primary wing structure and to which the main wing spars are
attached.
29. Turbine engine compressor component. A rotating airfoil which is part of an axial-
flow compressor in case turbine engines. They are driven by the turbine and
accelerate the air as it flows through the engine.
30. A vertical or angled extension at the wing tip of many transport and corporate
airplanes. They improve the efficiency of an aircraft by decreasing wingtip vortices
which cause lift-induced drag. They increase the effective aspect ratio of a wing
without adding to the span.
31. The extreme edge of a wing. On modern aircraft this is where the winglets are
mounted. Transport aircraft also have a strobe and navigation light in this position.
32. The edge of a moving object that reaches a point in space or time ahead of the rest of
the object. In an airplane wing or helicopter rotor, it is the part of the wing or rotor
the moving air touches first.
33. The fixed vertical surface in the empennage of an airplane. It acts as a weather vane
to give the airplane directional stability.
34. A flight condition of an aircraft in which the aircraft rotates about its vertical axis. It is
not the same as turning, because the aircraft may still continue in straight flight, with
the wind striking it from the side. When an aircraft is turned, it follows a curved path,
with the wind flowing parallel to its longitudinal axis.
35. The landing gear of an aircraft that uses two or more tandem wheels connected by a
central strut.
Please find the correct name for the descriptions above.

Landing gear Spoilers Jettison

Engine cone Winglet Radome
Static discharger Navigation light Strobe
Wing centre box Hull Spar
Bulkhead Forward fuselage Empennage
Nacelle Wingtip Airfoil
Pylon Cowling Bogie landing gear
Fairing Rear or aft fuselage Primary flight
controls
Leading edge t-tail Blade
Yaw Vertical stabilizer Horizontal
stabilizer
Pitch Trailing edge Roll
Rotation Exhaust cone