Aerospace History
This pair of brothers credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful motor-operated airplane in 1903.
The Wright Brothers (Orville and Wilbur)
This is the aerodynamic force that overcomes the weight of an aircraft to keep it in the air.
Lift
This NASA program successfully landed the first humans on the Moon in 1969.
Apollo Program
He is the namesake of the C/Col achievement milestone, known as the father of the modern United States Air Force.
General Carl A. Spaatz
This primary navigation system uses a constellation of satellites to pinpoint a receiver's exact location on Earth.
GPS (Global Positioning System)
This American aviator became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932, five years before her mysterious disappearance over the Pacific.
Amelia Earhart
This scientific principle states that as the velocity of a fluid increases, the pressure exerted by that fluid decreases, explaining how a wing generates lift.
Bernoulli's Principle
This massive gas giant has a persistent high-pressure storm known as the Great Red Spot.
Jupiter
This core mission of CAP involves 3 missions: Emergency Services, Cadet Programs, and...
Aerospace Education
This is the practice of tricking users into giving up sensitive information, often through deceptive emails or fake websites.
Phishing
He became an international hero in 1927 by making the first non-stop solo transatlantic flight in the Spirit of St. Louis.
Charles Lindbergh
This occurs when the angle of attack becomes too steep, causing the smooth airflow over the upper surface of the wing to separate and drop lift drastically.
Aerodynamic stall
He was the first American to orbit the Earth, doing so in his Friendship 7 spacecraft in 1962.
John Glenn
CAP was founded on this exact date, just six days before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
December 1, 1941
Malicious software designed to disrupt, damage, or gain unauthorized access to a computer system.
Malware
This American pilot became the first person to officially break the sound barrier in 1947, flying the Bell X-1.
Chuck Yeager
These secondary flight control surfaces on the trailing edge of a wing are extended during takeoff and landing to increase both lift and drag.
Flaps
This is the point of a satellite's orbit where it is closest to the Earth.
Perigee
This is the official Latin motto of the Civil Air Patrol, which translates to "Always Vigilant".
Semper Vigilans
This type of cyber attack uses a network of hijacked "zombie" computers to flood a target server with traffic until it crashes and becomes unavailable to legitimate users.
DDoS attack (Distributed Denial of Service)
This legislative act established the U.S. Air Force as a completely separate branch of the U.S. Armed Forces in September 1947.
The National Security Act of 1947
Moving the control stick or yoke left or right controls this aircraft motion around the longitudinal axis.
Roll
This is the minimum speed an object must reach to break free from a planet's gravitational pull.
Escape Velocity
There are this many geographic Regions across the United States that manage the 52 individual Wings of CAP.
8 (Northeast, Middle East, Southeast, Great Lakes, North Central, Southwest, Rocky Mountain, and Pacific)
This network security device monitors and filters incoming and outgoing network traffic based on an organization’s previously established security policies.
Firewall