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Static stability - Flight Mechanics & Space Dynamics - Aerospace Engineering Previous Year Questions

Practice Static stability - Flight Mechanics & Space Dynamics - Aerospace Engineering previous year questions organised from real papers, with year-wise coverage and clear topic navigation.

19Papers
19Years
126Questions
1Topics

Static stability question pattern

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Questions by year

Compare question counts across years.

Difficulty distribution

How the classified questions are distributed by difficulty.

Medium 70 55.6%
Easy 55 43.7%
Hard 1 0.8%

Question type distribution

MCQ, numerical, multiple-select and other formats found in these papers.

MCQ 94 74.6%
Numerical Answer Type (NAT) 23 18.3%
MSQ 7 5.6%
Fill in the blanks 2 1.6%

Subject weightage

Top subjects by unique question coverage.

Aerospace Engineering
126 Qs

Most asked topics

Top topics across the included previous year papers.

Flight Mechanics & Space Dynamics
126 Qs

Subtopic coverage

Top subtopics inside this exact selection.

Static stability
126 Qs

Paper coverage

Question coverage for the most populated papers. Every active PYP paper remains listed below.

Aerospace Engineering (AE) 2026
1 Qs
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 2025
4 Qs
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 2024
4 Qs
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 2023
2 Qs
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 2022
2 Qs
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 2021
9 Qs
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 2020
4 Qs
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 2019
9 Qs
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 2018
3 Qs
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 2017
6 Qs
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 2016
3 Qs
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 2014
11 Qs
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 2013
10 Qs
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 2012
11 Qs
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 2011
8 Qs
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 2010
10 Qs
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 2009
6 Qs
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 2008
9 Qs
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 2007
14 Qs

Included previous year papers

Newest papers appear first. Search these papers or sort by year and name.

Paper nameYearPDFAttempt
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 20262026
1 questions in this view
2026
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 20252025
4 questions in this view
2025
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 20242024
4 questions in this view
2024
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 20232023
2 questions in this view
2023
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 20222022
2 questions in this view
2022
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 20212021
9 questions in this view
2021
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 20202020
4 questions in this view
2020
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 20192019
9 questions in this view
2019
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 20182018
3 questions in this view
2018
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 20172017
6 questions in this view
2017
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 20162016
3 questions in this view
2016
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 20142014
11 questions in this view
2014
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 20132013
10 questions in this view
2013
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 20122012
11 questions in this view
2012
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 20112011
8 questions in this view
2011
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 20102010
10 questions in this view
2010
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 20092009
6 questions in this view
2009
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 20082008
9 questions in this view
2008
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 20072007
14 questions in this view
2007

All Static stability previous year questions

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2007 · Aerospace Engineering · Flight Mechanics & Space Dynamics · Static stability
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 2007

For maximum range of a glider, which of the following conditions is true?

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2007 · Aerospace Engineering · Flight Mechanics & Space Dynamics · Static stability
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 2007

An airplane with a larger wing as compared to a smaller wing will necessarily have

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2007 · Aerospace Engineering · Flight Mechanics & Space Dynamics · Static stability
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 2007

Two airplanes are identical except for the location of the wing. The longitudinal static stability of the airplane with low wing configuration will be

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2007 · Aerospace Engineering · Flight Mechanics & Space Dynamics · Static stability
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 2007

For a fixed center of gravity location of an airplane, when the propeller is mounted on the nose of the fuselage

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2007 · Aerospace Engineering · Flight Mechanics & Space Dynamics · Static stability
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 2007
An airplane model with a symmetric airfoil was tested in a wind tunnel. C_m0 (C_m at angle of attack, α = 0) was estimated to be 0.08 and 0 respectively for elevator settings (δe) of 5 degrees up and 5 degrees down. The estimated value of the elevator control power (∂C_m/∂δe) of the model will be
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2007 · Aerospace Engineering · Flight Mechanics & Space Dynamics · Static stability
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 2007
An airplane is flying at an altitude of 10km above the sea level. Outside air temperature and density at 10km altitude are 223 K and 0.413 kg/m^3 respectively. The airspeed indicator of the airplane indicates a speed of 60 m/s. Density of air at sea level is 1.225 kg/m^3 and value of the gas constant R is 288 J/kg/K. The stagnation pressure (Po) measured by the Pitot tube mounted on the wing tip of the airplane will be of magnitude
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2007 · Aerospace Engineering · Flight Mechanics & Space Dynamics · Static stability
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 2007
If the center of gravity of an airplane is moved forward towards the nose of the airplane, the C_Lmax (maximum value of the lift coefficient) value for which the airplane can be trimmed (C_m = 0) will
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2007 · Aerospace Engineering · Flight Mechanics & Space Dynamics · Static stability
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 2007
If the contribution of only the horizontal tail of an airplane was considered for estimating ∂C_m/∂α, and if the tail moment arm l_t was doubled, then how many times the original value would the new ∂C_m/∂α become?
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2007 · Aerospace Engineering · Flight Mechanics & Space Dynamics · Static stability
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 2007
If the vertical tail of an airplane is inverted and put below the horizontal tail, then the contribution to roll derivative, ∂C_l/∂β, will be
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2007 · Aerospace Engineering · Flight Mechanics & Space Dynamics · Static stability
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 2007

If horizontal tail area is increased while the elevator to horizontal tail area ratio is kept same, then

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2007 · Aerospace Engineering · Flight Mechanics & Space Dynamics · Static stability
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 2007
The most forward location of the airplane center of gravity permitted to fulfill the designer's requirement on longitudinal static stability margin is
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2007 · Aerospace Engineering · Flight Mechanics & Space Dynamics · Static stability
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 2007
The most aft location of the airplane center of gravity permitted to fulfill designer's requirement on longitudinal static stability margin is
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2007 · Aerospace Engineering · Flight Mechanics & Space Dynamics · Static stability
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 2007
The center of gravity location to have \( \frac{d\delta_e}{dC_L} = 0 \) is
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2007 · Aerospace Engineering · Flight Mechanics & Space Dynamics · Static stability
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 2007

If during the maximum rate of climb at 5 km altitude, the airplane was flying at an angle of attack of 4 degrees and attitude (pitch) angle of 5 degrees, what was equivalent airspeed of the airplane?

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2008 · Aerospace Engineering · Flight Mechanics & Space Dynamics · Static stability
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 2008
In steady, level turning flight of an aircraft at a load factor 'n', the ratio of the horizontal component of lift and aircraft weight is
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2008 · Aerospace Engineering · Flight Mechanics & Space Dynamics · Static stability
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 2008
The figure below shows the variation of \(C_m\) versus \(\alpha\) for an aircraft for three combinations of elevator deflections and locations of centre of gravity. In the figure, lines P and Q are parallel, while lines Q and R have the same intercept on the \(C_m\) axis. Which of the following statements is true?

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2008 · Aerospace Engineering · Flight Mechanics & Space Dynamics · Static stability
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 2008

An aircraft has a level flight stalling speed of 60 m/s EAS (equivalent air speed). As per the V-n diagram, what is the minimum speed at which it should be designed to withstand the maximum vertical load factor of 9?

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2008 · Aerospace Engineering · Flight Mechanics & Space Dynamics · Static stability
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 2008
Match each mode of aircraft motion listed in Group I to its corresponding property from Group II.

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2008 · Aerospace Engineering · Flight Mechanics & Space Dynamics · Static stability
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 2008

The primary function of the fin in the vertical tail of an aircraft is to provide

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2008 · Aerospace Engineering · Flight Mechanics & Space Dynamics · Static stability
Aerospace Engineering (AE) 2008

An aircraft requires the trailing edge of the elevator to be deflected upwards from its initial position to lower the trim speed. Which of the following statements about the static stick-fixed stability of this aircraft is true?

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