3. Lift and Drag
Drag Components — Quiz
Test your understanding of drag components with 5 practice questions.
Practice Questions
Question 1
Which drag component is caused mainly by friction between the airflow and an aircraft's surface?
Question 2
Which drag component is mainly caused by flow separation and the low-pressure wake behind a body?
Question 3
Which drag component is produced because a wing must create lift?
Question 4
Which drag component appears where airflow from different parts of the aircraft meets and disturbs each other, such as at a wing-fuselage junction?
Question 5
Which drag component becomes significant at high subsonic and transonic speeds because of shock waves?