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100

This aircraft manufacturer produces the popular Skyhawk, model 172.

What is Cessna?

100

Pilots receive takeoff and landing instructions from people working in this tower.

What is the control tower?

100

This woman became the first female pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

Who is Amelia Earhart?

100

This force keeps airplanes in the air.

What is lift?

100

The Blue Angels fly for this branch of the military.

What is the Navy?

200

The wings, tail, and engine all attach to this main body of the airplane.

What is the fuselage?

200

Airplanes take off and land on this.

What is a runway?

200

These two brothers are credited with inventing and flying the first successful airplane.

Who are the Wright Brothers?

200

This force pulls everything toward Earth.

What is gravity?

200

This branch operates aircraft such as the F-22 Raptor.

What is the Air Force?

300

This part of the airplane helps control up-and-down movement.

What is the elevator?

300

The airport code for Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport is this.

What is SDF?

300

He became famous for flying solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927.

Who is Charles Lindbergh?

300

This force pushes an airplane forward.

What is thrust?

300

This aircraft is nicknamed the "Queen of the Skies."

What is the Boeing 747?

400

Most small airplanes have one engine, but this type of airplane has two.

What is a twin-engine airplane?

400

This airport in Chicago has the code ORD.

What is O'Hare Airport?

400

This former pilot became the first person to walk on the Moon.

Who is Neil Armstrong?

400

A pilot uses this instrument to determine altitude.

What is an altimeter?

400

This stealth bomber has a flying-wing design.

What is the B-2 Spirit?

500

This type of airplane has wheels in the front and the back, instead of a nose wheel in the front.

What is a tailwheel airplane?

500

The busiest airport in the United States is located in this city.

What is Atlanta?

500

This pilot broke the sound barrier in the Bell X-1.

Who is Chuck Yeager?

500

When an airplane's wing stops producing enough lift, it enters this condition.

What is a stall?

500

The military's aerobatic demonstration team is called the Blue _____.

What are the Angels?

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