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In the text find the definition of a stress man.
5. Answer the questions:
1. What are the things which make aircraft engineering difficult?
2. What is a practical limit to the total weight of aircraft?
3. Where and why do the stress man’s calculations go?
4. Why are the samples tested?
5. How many airplanes of new type are destroyed in structural tests?
6. What types of ground strength tests are carried out?
7. Can the airplane fly without government certificate of airworthiness?
8. What are the requirements for the flying controls, the electrical equipment, etc?
9. What must the working parts of the aircraft be?
10. What reason are the new materials being tested for?
Vocabulary Focus
Match the synonyms and make up word combinations using words from column B.
A B
reliable unit
aircraft safe
difficult destruction
engine plane
consumption cargo
freight armature
sample hard
assembly use
resistance power plant
collapse opposition
equipment pattern
Find these verbs in the text and write out the words collocate with.
To make, to build, to allow, to calculate, to test, to prove, to separate, to destroy, to result in, to apply.
Fill in the gaps with the suitable derivative of the word given in brackets.
1. The practical limit of the aircraft weight are a certain power of engine and a certain fuel ____ (consume).
2. The structure of the aircraft must be as small and light as ____ (safe) and efficiency will allow.
3. The stress man’s ____ (calculate) go to the designer of the part.
4. In one of the ground tests the wings, tail and other units reach maximum load to find out the ____ (resist) to loading.
5. In the test for fatigue strength small loads are applied for thousands of times and many ____ (repeat) can result in collapse.
Speaking
Imagine you are a supervisor of a trainee group. Tell them about plane makers and steps of aircraft designing.
UNIT 14
Rockets
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