Intro to Flight
These two brothers are credited with the first controlled, powered, heavier than air flight.
Who are the Wright Brothers?
These are the four strokes of an internal combustion engine.
What are Intake, Compression, Power/ingnition, and Exhaust?
This is a dedicated pathway used for the landing and taking off of aircraft.
What is a Runway?
This is defined as a body of air in motion.
What is wind?
The Third Law of Motion developed by Sir Isaac Newton that is helpful in determining how a motor propels a rocket upward.
What is "Every action has an equal an opposite reaction?"
These are known as the four forces of flight.
What are Lift, Gravity, Thrust, Drag?
This is a fuel metering system used to create the proper mixture of fuel and air.
What are a carburetor or fuel injector?
A runway with the numbers 09 on one side and the number 27 on the other would face these two cardinal directions.
What are east and west?
The process of converting water into a liquid.
What is condensation?
This is the science and study of air in motion.
What is aerodynamics?
These are the three axis of movement of an aircraft.
What are the vertical axis, the lateral axis, and the longitudinal axis?
The component in an aircraft powerplant that charges the battery and supplies the power for other equipment in an aircraft other than the spark plugs.
What is an alternator?
A structure that houses air traffic controllers and determines if an airport is a controlled airport or not.
What is a Control Tower?
The temperature at which air becomes fully saturated.
What is the dew point?
Known as the Father of Practical Modern Rocketry. He proved the concept of liquid fueled rockets.
Who is Robbert H. Goddard?
The principle that states that an increase in the speed of a fluid occurs simultaneously with a decrease in the pressure of the fluid.
What is the Bernoulli Principle?
The component in an aircraft powerplant that supplies the power needed to operate the spark plugs.
What are magnetos?
A passageway between the parking area and the runways of an airport that aircraft use to transport from one area to another while on the ground.
What are taxiways?
This is the effect that defines the apparent deflection of a freely-moving object to the right in the Northern Hemisphere.
This is the highest point above Earth reached in the flight of a rocket, or in the orbit of a satellite.
What is the apogee?
The angle between the propeller's rotation axis and the direction of the airflow.
What is the Angle of Incidence?
A highly efficient ratio of fuel and air which consists of approximately 15 parts air to 1 part fuel. Theoretically when ignited all of the fuel is burned.
What is the Stoichiometric ratio?
These are vertical white bars on a runway that signify the beginning of the runway available to land.
What are threshold markings?
This METAR section would tell this about what the wind is doing at this moment. - 18017 KT -
What is a 17-knot wind coming from the direction of the south at 180 degrees?
The German scientist that was the team leader of the group that developed the V-2 rocket system. He later would become the chief architect of the Saturn V rocket system that carried American astronauts to the moon.
Who is Dr. Werner Von Braun?