GATE AE 2017 Paper 1 — page 15

Questions 43–45 of 65. Imported answers require review unless explicitly marked reviewed.

An aircraft is to be designed to ensure that it has enough excess power to achieve steady climb at flight path angle,

degrees, maintaining

. The numerical value of the thrust to weight ratio of the complete aircraft to meet the above requirement under standard atmospheric condition will be ________ (in three decimal place).

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A conventional aircraft was analyzed to estimate the contribution of wing towards

(

) of the whole aircraft. The wing was installed with zero setting angle along the fuselage reference line. Further, the wing was laid such that

, and

and

are the non-dimensional distances, from the leading edge of the wing, of the aerodynamic center of the wing and center of gravity of the aircraft respectively. The wing had the following aerodynamic characteristics:

, and

. The numerical value of

(contribution of the wing to

) about the CG of the aircraft is ________ (in two decimal places).

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In a combustor, gaseous Octane (C₈H₁₈) and air are to be burned in stoichiometric proportions. If the required flow rate of air is 1 kg/s, what should be the corresponding flow rate of Octane?

Your answerChoose one option.

0.066 kg/s

15.15 kg/s

0.16 kg/s

6.25 kg/s

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