22-Mec-B7 Aero and Space Flight
Worked solutions to 4 past sittings (2013–2017), 28 questions. Pick a sitting, or start from a topic below.
Topics across the sittings
Topics that come up in more than one sitting, taken from the headings of our worked solutions. A topic counts once per sitting.
- High-Lift Devices (3 sittings): December 2017 Q3 · December 2016 Q3 · December 2013 Q3
- Atmospheric Entry (2 sittings): December 2017 Q7 · May 2016 Q7
- Critical Mach number (2 sittings): December 2016 Q2 · December 2013 Q3
- Drag Mechanisms (2 sittings): December 2017 Q2 · December 2016 Q3
- Endurance Speeds (2 sittings): December 2016 Q6 · May 2016 Q5
- Gust Load Factor (2 sittings): December 2017 Q5 · December 2016 Q6
- Landing Distance (2 sittings): December 2017 Q5 · December 2016 Q6
- Maximum speed (2 sittings): May 2016 Q4 · December 2013 Q4
- Orbital Mechanics (2 sittings): December 2017 Q7 · May 2016 Q7
- Propulsion (2 sittings): December 2016 Q4 · May 2016 Q6
- Range (2 sittings): December 2016 Q6 · May 2016 Q5
- Rocket Staging (2 sittings): December 2017 Q7 · December 2016 Q7
- Stability (2 sittings): December 2017 Q6 · May 2016 Q6
- Stagnation pressure (2 sittings): May 2016 Q1 · December 2013 Q1
Questions by sitting
December 2017
- Question 1: The Standard Atmosphere, Altitude Definitions and Bernoulli’s Equation
- Question 2: Drag Mechanisms, Level-Flight Equilibrium and Wing Sizing
- Question 3: Airfoils, High-Lift Devices and Compressibility Effects
- Question 4: Complete Performance Analysis of a Jet Aircraft
- Question 5: Landing Distance and Gust Load Factor
- Question 6: Stability, Air-Breathing Engines and Rocket Propulsion
- Question 7: Rocket Staging, Atmospheric Entry and Orbital Mechanics
December 2016
- Question 1: Level Flight, Terminal Dive, Pitot-Static Measurement and the Absolute Ceiling
- Question 2: High-Speed and Low-Speed Limits, Critical Mach Number and Area Ruling
- Question 3: Aerodynamic Definitions, Drag Mechanisms, High-Lift Devices and Longitudinal Stability
- Question 4: Propulsion — Turbo-fans, Rocket Motors, Afterburning, Propellers and Ram-jets
- Question 5: Complete Performance Analysis of a Jet Transport
- Question 6: Range and Endurance Speeds, Landing Distance and Gust Load Factor
- Question 7: Rocket Staging, Ballistic Re-entry, Re-entry Heating and Escape Velocity
May 2016
- Question 1: Altitudes, Mach-Limited Speed and Stagnation Pressure
- Question 2: Steady Level Flight, Minimum Speed and the Drag Breakdown
- Question 3: Transonic Aerodynamics and High-Speed Wing Design
- Question 4: Maximum Speed, Glide, Climb and Minimum Drag
- Question 5: Range and Endurance Speeds, Take-Off Distance, Gust Load and Ceiling
- Question 6: Stability, Turning Flight and Propulsion
- Question 7: Rocket Performance, Atmospheric Entry and Orbital Mechanics
December 2013
- Question 1: Standard-atmosphere altitudes, Pitot-static reading and stagnation pressure
- Question 2: Minimum flight speed with and without high-lift devices, and wing surface pressures
- Question 3: Compressibility drag, critical Mach number, induced drag, high-lift devices and static stability
- Question 4: Maximum speed, minimum-drag speed and best rate of climb from a parabolic drag polar
- Question 5: Take-off distance to 15 m and landing distance from 15 m
- Question 6: Load factor, turn radius, by-pass and afterburning engines, and jet performance parameters
- Question 7: Ballistic re-entry of an iron sphere — peak deceleration and impact speed