Modules 1+2 - Intro to Flight + Aircraft Systems and Airports
The nose up/nose down motion of an aircraft
What is pitch?
The color of cold fronts on a weather map
What is the color blue?
The amount of push used to get a rocket traveling upwards
What is thrust?
The distance light can travel in one Earth year
What is a light year?
A worldwide collection of networks that connect millions of devices to allow businesses, government agencies, institutions of higher learning, and individuals to communicate with one another
What is the internet?
The two artificial forces acting on an airplane
What are lift and thrust?
The continuous movement of water betweenthe Earth and its atmosphere
What is the water cycle?
The mass the rocket is carrying. Can be made up of equipment and/or people.
What is a payload?
The first artificial satellite sent into space by mankind
What is Sputnik?
Malicious attempts by hackers to damage, steal, or destroy a computer network or system
What are cyberattacks?
The federal government agency that controls the airway system over the U.S. and dictates the standards which govern airports
What is the Federal Aviation Administration [FAA]?
Layer of the atmosphere that experiences a loss or gain in electrons of the atoms and molecules within it
What is the Ionosphere?
This provides the shape of the rocket and all other systems contained within it
What is the airframe?
The part of the sun that gives off light
What is the photosphere?
A network device that requests access to some type of service to accomplish its task
What is a client?
The most common visual glide path system and gives pilots a visual indication of the proper approach.
What is PAPI/VASI?
The temperature at which the air becomes saturated with as much water vapor as it can hold
What is the dew point?
New rocket in development by United Launch Alliance; it is the successor to the Atlas V and Delta IV
What is the Vulcan rocket?
The rough number of Earth years it takes Jupiter to revolve around the sun one single time
What is 11.86 years?
Small text files created by a web browser that store information
What are computer cookies?
What is a glide ratio?
Stationary, lens-shaped clouds that form at high altitudes, usually aligned at right angles to the wind direction
What are lenticular clouds?
Who is Konstantin Tsiolkovsky?
The first commercial satellite
What is Telstar 1?
Hackers who employ their skills to exploit networks and computer systems without malicious intent; usually hack systems to discover vulnerabilities for their own enjoyment
What are grey hat hackers?