Aircraft Sys. & Airports
The ground movement of an aircraft
What is taxiing?
A tropical cyclone of low pressure, very strong winds and rain, and possible tornadoes
What is a hurricane?
This is what the rocket is carrying
What is the payload?
This is a massive cloud of gas and dust
What is a nebula?
Who was the first American to orbit the earth?
Who was John Glenn?
What are tetrahedrons and/or wind tees?
Cumulus, stratus, and cirrus
What are the 3 basic cloud forms?
This was defined by Newton's first law
What is inertia
This is a small streak of light in the atmosphere
What is a meteor?
This was the first American to perform a successful spacewalk
Who was Ed White?
The intersection of two lines of position
What is a fix?
This is a parcel of air holding as much water vapor as it can
What is saturation?
This station was launched in 1973
What was slylab?
What is the Moon?
This person gave us the first theory of motion of celestial bodies
Who was Ptolemy?
Specifically designed chart for aviation use and VFR, 1:500,000 scale
What is a sectional aeronautical chart?
This causes air movement in the atmosphere
What is unequal heating?
F=MA was discovered by
This celestial body was shown to have nitrogen geysers
What is Triton?
This is the lowest point in any orbit
A length of 6076 feet
What is a nautical mile?
This type of cloud can produce rain for hours
What is a nimbostratus?
This was the leading Soviet rocket scientist
This was the first asteroid to have high-definition pictures taken of it
What is Gaspra?
This person said each planet's orbit around the sun was an ellipse.
Who was Kepler?