Forces of Flight
True or False, does a helicopter have the four forces of flight?
what is True
Every aircraft, whether an airplane, helicopter or rocket, is affected by four forces of flight.
What is an axis of flight?
What is an imaginary line around which an airplane can turn
Where is the Elevator and Rudder located?
What is located on the Tail.
What is an Axis?
What is an imaginary line around which an airplane can turn.
What does CG stand for?
What is center of gravity.
What is lift generated from?
What is lift is generated by the motion of air passing over the aircraft’s wings.
How does an aircraft move around its lateral axis?
what is pitch (up and down)
When one Aileron is raised, the other Aileron _______.
What is the other Aileron is lowered.
What is a Control Surface?
What is any part of an aircraft which can be moved to direct airflow, enabling the aircraft to roll, pitch and yaw.
What is the force that must be overcome by lift in order for an aircraft to take off?
What is weight
What is thrust produced from?
What is thrust is produced by an aircraft’s propulsion system or engine.
How does an aircraft move around its longitudinal axis?
What is the job of the aileron?
What are the ailerons, which roll the aircraft by changing lift on each wing
What is a Fuselage?
What is the body of an aircraft.
What are the core values in CAP?
what is integrity, volunteer service, excellence, and respect.
What is weight?
What is weight is a force that is always directed toward the center of the earth due to gravity.
How does an aircraft move around its lateral axis?
What is pitching?
What is the purpose of the rudder?
What is the rudder, which steers the aircraft left and right like a boat’s rudder.
What is Center of Gravity (CG)?
What is the effective point whereby all weight is considered to be; the same point where the axes of flight meet.
True or false, does drag make you go faster?
What is false.
It makes you slower.
What is drag?
What is simply resistance of the aircraft against the air.
What are the three basic axes of flight?
What is Left and Right, Forwards and Backwards, Up and Down (lateral axis, longitudinal axis and vertical axis)
What are the two purposes of the elevator?
What is the horizontal stabilizer and its elevator, which provide stability and control the aircraft’s pitch
What is Coordinated Flight?
What is flight during which the plane’s ailerons and rudder work together to keep the nose and tail traveling in the same direction.
What are the three axes of flight?
What is lateral, longitudinal, and vertical axis.