Flight
Air in motion.
What is Wind?
The sailplane cadets use at Air Force Academy.
What is Schweizer TG-4?
A form of wooden construction used in the baskets.
What is wicker?
Father and son who flew towards the sun.
Who are Daedulus and Icarus?
The amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water, one degree celsius.
What is a calorie?
Any machine that is capable of flying through the air.
What is Aircraft?
Disrupts airflow over upper camber of the wing.
What are divebrakes or spoilers?
Another name for the basket.
What is the gondola?
Discovered relationship between pressure and fluids in motion.
Who is Daniel Bernoulli?
States that an object at rest will remain at rest unless acted upon by some outside force.
What is Newton’s First Law of Motion?
The force which retards the forward movement of an aircraft in flight.
What is Drag?
Average rate at which temperature decreases with an increase in altitude.
What is Lapse rate or 2 degrees per thousand feet?
Container that holds the hot air.
What is the Envelope?
Defined gravity.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
L = CL x R x 1/2V2 x A
What is Lift Formula?
Point where three axes come together.
What is Center of Gravity?
The art of staying aloft by exploiting the energy of the atmosphere.
What is Soaring?
A measure of heat.
What is British Thermal Unit or BTU or Calorie?
Two French brothers who created the first successful, manned hot air balloon.
Who are the Montgolfier Brothers?
Also known as Bernoullian Lift.
What is Induced Lift?
The flow of air which moves opposite the flight path of an airplane.
What is Relative Wind?
A column of air that moves upward.
What is a thermal?
Material that covers the vent.
What is the parachute?
Made a flight over Paris on November 21, 1783.
Who are Pilatre d’Rozier and Francois d’Arlandes?
Dynamic lift is example of this Newton Law.
What is the third Law of Motion?