Gliders & Sailplanes
This type of aircraft is designed for unpowered flight.
What is a glider?
This rising column of warm air can provide lift to a glider.
What is a thermal?
These clouds can mark the tops of thermals.
What are cumulus clouds?
This adjustment helps a glider maintain the correct flying speed.
What is trim?
This material is added to the model glider to adjust its balance.
What is clay or Play-Doh?
This higher-performance type of glider is optimized for long-distance, long-duration soaring.
What is a sailplane?
Warm air rises because it becomes less of this than the cooler air around it.
What is dense?
These soaring animals can help pilots locate thermals.
What are circling birds?
This measurement tells how far a glider travels for each foot of altitude lost.
What is glide ratio?
During testing, this many cadets may launch a glider at a time.
What is one cadet?
This is used to pull a glider up to altitude before release.
What is a tow?
This process describes warm air rising, cooling, and later sinking.
What is convection?
Pilots look for thermals over these types of surfaces because they heat well.
What are dark surfaces?
These long, narrow aircraft parts help produce a high lift-to-drag design.
What are wings?
Cadets may cross the taped flight line only for this purpose.
What is retrieving the gliders?
A person can train for a glider pilot certificate at an FAA-approved glider school, private soaring club, or this type of program.
What is a university program?
According to the presentation, air temperature drops by this amount for every 1,000 feet of altitude.
What is 3½°F per 1,000 feet?
Glider pilots try to fly under this part of a developing cumulus cloud.
What is the darkest part of the cloud?
A high lift-to-drag design turns altitude into this while wasting little energy.
What is distance?
After the first flight, cadets were given time to do this before launching again.
What is edit their gliders?
During an aircraft tow, the tow rope connects the front of the glider to this part of the powered airplane.
What is the back of the airplane?
Rising air eventually stops ascending because it does this as it rises.
What is cools?
Lakes, irrigation, green vegetation, and shade were listed as places pilots should do this when searching for thermals.
What is avoid them?
Glide ratio helps a pilot determine the altitude needed between these areas of rising air.
What are thermals?
According to the presentation, CAP discontinued its National and State Glider Programs in this month and year.
What is November 2025?