Module 1
Intro to Flight
Intro to Flight
This is the force of flight that opposes Gravity.
What is Lift?
This is what the acronym GPS stands for.
What is Global Positioning System?
A body of air in motion. Described by having speed and direction.
What is wind?
This is the United States Space Program that put men on the moon.
What is Apollo?
The common color of the black box on an aircraft. The primary purpose of which is to provide investigators with objective, detailed evidence of what happened during a flight
What is orange?
The Law of Motion that states that every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton's 3rd Law of Motion?
This is the common unit of measurement to describe airspeed.
What is a knot?
This is the most prominent gas in the atmosphere.
What is Nitrogen?
This man became the first American in space aboard the Freedom 7 capsule.
Who is Alan Shepard?
These two brothers are credited with the first successful, powered, controlled airplane flight in 1903.
Who are Orville and Wilbur Wright?
This is the airplane that pulls a glider from the ground to an altitude where it can be released.
What is the tow plane?
These are the four strokes of an internal combustion engine.
What are intake, compression, power/ignition, and exhaust?
This is the amount of water vapor in the air at a given time.
What is humidity?
This man is known as the Father of Modern Rocketry.
Who is Robert Goddard?
An Astronomical Unit or AU signifies the distance between these two points.
What are the earth and the sun?
These are the three primary flight control surfaces.
What are ailerons, elevators, and rudders?
This is the actual airspeed to the aircraft through the air that is corrected for pressure and non-standard temperature.
What is true airspeed?
The fourth and hottest layer of the earth's atmosphere.
What is the Thermosphere?
The US space program organized in 1958 commonly referred to as NASA.
What is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration?
This is the year that the Civil Air Patrol was established, originally to support the nation's civilian aviation efforts during World War II.
What is 1941?
This is the imaginary curved line in an airfoil that runs halfway between the upper and lower surfaces of the airfoil dividing it into two equal halves.
What is the camber line?
This is the most efficient ratio of fuel to air for an internal combustion engine which is approximately 15 parts of air for every 1 part of fuel.
What is the stoichiometric ratio?
Defined as a sudden down draft. It is a column of sinking air that as it nears the ground or hits the ground diverges in many directions. These winds can reach 100 - 150 miles per hour and cause considerable damage.
What is a Microburst?
This is the name of the first US space station.
What is Skylab?
Who is Maj. Gen. John F. Curry?