NIFE Aero Exam Questions and Answers With Verified Solutions 2025
Define Vector - ✔✔A quantity that expresses both magnitude and direction. A vector quantity is
represented by an arrow that displays direction and has a length proportional to magnitude
Moment - ✔✔Force applied at some distance from an axis or fulcrum
Fxd
(Distance: from the point of rotation that is perpendicular to force, "moment arm")
Equilibrium Flight - ✔✔When the sum of all FORCE and all MOMENTS around the COG are equal to zero
When are the four forces that act on an airplane in equilibrium? - ✔✔Thrust, drag, lift, weight
Atmospheric static pressure - ✔✔Weight of a column of air over a given area
Air Density - ✔✔The total mass of air particles per unit of volume
What three things happen as air becomes less dense for airplane: - ✔✔Reduces power
Reduces thrust
Reduces lift
With altitude increase, what happens to air temp - ✔✔Decreases linearly at 2 C (3.57 F) per 1000ft, until
36000ft.
What is this rate of temp change called - ✔✔Average Lapse Rate
Humidity - ✔✔Amount of water vapor in the air
Humidity and Density relationship - ✔✔Inverse
,General Gas Law - ✔✔P = pRT
Steady airflow - ✔✔Exists if at every point in the airflow static pressure, density, temperature, and
velocity remain constant over time (may vary from one point to another, but at any given point, it is
constant)
Same path is followed
Steamline - ✔✔the path that air particles follow in steady airflow
Streamtube (2 things) - ✔✔collection of many adjacent streamlines.
closed system
Continuity Equation - ✔✔A1V1 = A2V2
Bernoulli's Principle - ✔✔Total energy of a fluid can be separated into potential energy (static pressure)
and kinetic energy (dynamic pressure)
Total Pressure (Pt) = - ✔✔Ps + q
Talk about Bernoullis Prin in a closed system - ✔✔Total pressure is constant, therefore an increase in
static pressure = decrease in dynamic pressure
PT = - ✔✔PT = Ps + (1/2)pV^2
Indicated Airspeed - ✔✔Actual instrument indication of the dynamic pressure the airplane is exposed to
during flight
Calibrated Airspeed - ✔✔When indicated airspeed is corrected for instrument error
, Equivalent Airspeed - ✔✔True airspeed at sea level on a standard day that produces the same dynamic
pressure as the actual flight condition
Found by correcting calibrated airspeed for compressibility error
True Airspeed - ✔✔Actual velocity at which an airplane moves through an air mass
Found by correcting equivalent airspeed for the difference between the local air density (p) and the
density of the air at sea level on a standard day (po)
If IAS remains constant while climbing from sea level to some higher altitude... what happens to TAS -
✔✔TAS increases
Ground speed - ✔✔Airplane's actual speed over the ground
Correct TAS for the movement of the air mass (wind)
Mean Camber Line - ✔✔locus of points halfway between upper and lower surfaces, measured
perpendicular to the mean camber line itself
Chordline - ✔✔infinitely long, straight line which passes through its leading and trailing edges.
Chord - ✔✔Precise measurement between the leading and trailing edges measured along the chordline
Root Chord - ✔✔Measured at the wing centerline
Tip Chord - ✔✔measured at the wingtip
Average chord - ✔✔The average of every chord from the wing root to the wingtip.
Define Vector - ✔✔A quantity that expresses both magnitude and direction. A vector quantity is
represented by an arrow that displays direction and has a length proportional to magnitude
Moment - ✔✔Force applied at some distance from an axis or fulcrum
Fxd
(Distance: from the point of rotation that is perpendicular to force, "moment arm")
Equilibrium Flight - ✔✔When the sum of all FORCE and all MOMENTS around the COG are equal to zero
When are the four forces that act on an airplane in equilibrium? - ✔✔Thrust, drag, lift, weight
Atmospheric static pressure - ✔✔Weight of a column of air over a given area
Air Density - ✔✔The total mass of air particles per unit of volume
What three things happen as air becomes less dense for airplane: - ✔✔Reduces power
Reduces thrust
Reduces lift
With altitude increase, what happens to air temp - ✔✔Decreases linearly at 2 C (3.57 F) per 1000ft, until
36000ft.
What is this rate of temp change called - ✔✔Average Lapse Rate
Humidity - ✔✔Amount of water vapor in the air
Humidity and Density relationship - ✔✔Inverse
,General Gas Law - ✔✔P = pRT
Steady airflow - ✔✔Exists if at every point in the airflow static pressure, density, temperature, and
velocity remain constant over time (may vary from one point to another, but at any given point, it is
constant)
Same path is followed
Steamline - ✔✔the path that air particles follow in steady airflow
Streamtube (2 things) - ✔✔collection of many adjacent streamlines.
closed system
Continuity Equation - ✔✔A1V1 = A2V2
Bernoulli's Principle - ✔✔Total energy of a fluid can be separated into potential energy (static pressure)
and kinetic energy (dynamic pressure)
Total Pressure (Pt) = - ✔✔Ps + q
Talk about Bernoullis Prin in a closed system - ✔✔Total pressure is constant, therefore an increase in
static pressure = decrease in dynamic pressure
PT = - ✔✔PT = Ps + (1/2)pV^2
Indicated Airspeed - ✔✔Actual instrument indication of the dynamic pressure the airplane is exposed to
during flight
Calibrated Airspeed - ✔✔When indicated airspeed is corrected for instrument error
, Equivalent Airspeed - ✔✔True airspeed at sea level on a standard day that produces the same dynamic
pressure as the actual flight condition
Found by correcting calibrated airspeed for compressibility error
True Airspeed - ✔✔Actual velocity at which an airplane moves through an air mass
Found by correcting equivalent airspeed for the difference between the local air density (p) and the
density of the air at sea level on a standard day (po)
If IAS remains constant while climbing from sea level to some higher altitude... what happens to TAS -
✔✔TAS increases
Ground speed - ✔✔Airplane's actual speed over the ground
Correct TAS for the movement of the air mass (wind)
Mean Camber Line - ✔✔locus of points halfway between upper and lower surfaces, measured
perpendicular to the mean camber line itself
Chordline - ✔✔infinitely long, straight line which passes through its leading and trailing edges.
Chord - ✔✔Precise measurement between the leading and trailing edges measured along the chordline
Root Chord - ✔✔Measured at the wing centerline
Tip Chord - ✔✔measured at the wingtip
Average chord - ✔✔The average of every chord from the wing root to the wingtip.
