Forces of Flight
This force pushes an airplane upward.
What is lift?
On a paper airplane, this part helps create lift.
What are the wings?
Paper airplanes are usually made by doing this to a sheet of paper.
What is folding it?
Before launching a plane, a scientist makes an educated guess called this.
What is prediction?
These large parts help an airplane stay in the air.
What are wings?
This force pulls an airplane toward Earth.
What is gravity or weight?
This provides the thrust when you launch a paper airplane.
What is your arm or your throw?
This pointed paper airplane design is named after a small object that is thrown at a target.
What is a dart?
Students use this long measuring tool to find how far their planes flew.
What is a yardstick?
This is the front tip of an airplane.
What is the nose?
This force moves airplane forward.
What is a thrust?
This happens to a plane when gravity becomes stronger than lift.
What is it falls or moves downward?
The Concorde paper airplane is designed to resemble this kind of very fast aircraft.
What is a jet or supersonic airplane?
This should be kept the same when comparing two paper-airplane designs.
What is the throwing method, starting line, paper, or test area?
This part is found at the back of an airplane
What is the tail?
Air pushing against an airplane creates this slowing force.
What is drag?
A plane with crooked or uneven wings may fly this way instead of straight
What is to one side, in a curve or off course?
Making both wings the same size helps a paper airplane do this?
What is fly or straight or stay balanced?
Flying a plane several times gives more dependable results than doing this
What is flying it only once?
On a real airplane, these provide the thrust that moves it forward.
What are the engines?
Name all four forces of flight.
What are lift, weight/gravity, thrust and drag?
For an airplane to fly straight and level, lift must balance this force
What is weight/gravity?
Adding a paperclip to the nose changes this part of the airplane.
What is its weight or center of gravity?
Changing one feature, testing again, and recording the result is part of this process.
What is an experiment or the scientific method?
These parts are used when an airplane takes off, lands, or moves on the ground.
What is the landing gear or wheels?