Wings & Lift
This is the front edge of the wing
The leading edge
This entire section at the back of the aircraft includes the horizontal stabilizer, elevator, vertical stabilizer, and rudder.
The empennage
What is the fuselage?
This is the main body of the aircraft.
What is the Landing Gear?
This part absorbs shock and supports the aircraft on the ground.
Engines generate this force to push the airplane forward.
Wings generate lift because air moves faster over the top and slower under the bottom. This pressure difference is explained by this physics principle.
Bernoulli’s principle
What is the vertical stabilizer?
This surface prevents side-to-side yawing motion.
What is the cockpit?
This section houses the pilots and flight controls.
This type of gear has a wheel under the nose and two main wheels in the middle.
What is tricycle gear?
Jet engines shoot out hot gases at high speed. This is the name for the opening they exit from.
Nozzle
These control surfaces on the wing tips move in opposite directions to control roll.
Ailerons
What is the rudder?
These are controlled using pedals and allow the pilot to steer during taxi, takeoff, and landing.
What is the center of gravity?
The fuselage connects all aircraft components and carries this important point that affects balance.
This configuration has a wheel under the tail instead of the nose.
What is a taildragger?
Spoilers reduce lift and are often used during this flight phase to slow down.
Landing phase.
What are flaps?
These surfaces near the wing root extend during takeoff and landing to increase lift at slow speeds.
What are trim tabs?
These tabs help balance flight without constant pilot input by adjusting trim.
What is the cabin (or cargo bay)?
Inside the fuselage, this section carries passengers, crew, and cargo.
Landing gear that stays outside the aircraft at all times is called this.
Fixed landing gear
When used asymmetrically, these surfaces help an aircraft roll more quickly.
Spoilers
What is a flaperon?
This combined control surface performs the job of flaps and ailerons at the same time.
What are elevators?
This part connected to the horizontal stabilizer controls pitch by moving up and down.
A pressurized fuselage is essential for flying at high altitudes because it maintains this for humans.
Air pressure / breathable atmosphere?
This type of landing gear folds into the fuselage or wings to reduce drag.
Retractable landing gear
These angled extensions at the wingtips reduce vortices and save fuel.
Winglets