The Four Forces of Flight
Pulls the wing up
What is Lift?
This provides lift to the plane
What is the Wing?
Part of a bird's wing that acts like Ailerons
What are feathers?
This is the part of a building that moves to get people or things up or down
What is an Elevator?
Studied by man to learn complex ideas about how to fly
What are birds?
The Force that is opposite to Lift
What is Gravity or Weight?
This provides thrust to the plane
What is the engine, motor, jet engine or propeller?
The back edge of the end of the wings
Where are Ailerons located?
Moves a plane up and down while in the air
What are Elevators?
When a plane leaves the ground
What is Take Off or Lift Off?
Pulls the plane down
What is Weight or Gravity?
In the air, this makes the plane go up or down
What is the Elevator?
What happens to the plane when the left aileron is up and the right aileron is down?
What is a Roll to the left?
Where Elevators are usually located on a modern plane
What is the back, on the Tail?
When a plane returns safely to the ground
What is Landing?
Makes the plane go
What is Thrust?
These are on the back edge of the end of the wing, used to make the plane roll
What is an Aileron?
What happens to the plane when the left aileron is down and the right aileron is up?
What is a Roll to the right?
Part of a bird's tail that act like Elevators?
What are feathers?
The first people in the US to fly a plane
Who were the Wright Brothers?
Slows the plane
What is Drag?
This turns the plane right or left
What is the Rudder?
Rolling into a turn helps the wings to provide this force to help the plane turn smoothly
What is Lift?
Where the Wright Brothers had the Elevators on their planes
What is the front of the plane?
This the state where the first plane was flown in the US
What is North Carolina?