Aviation
This is the name of a fixed-wing machine driven by a propeller
What is an Airplane?
This is what is held by the balloon's basket
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What is equipment?
This is the name of the cylindrical rod that is used to guide the model rocket during its first few feet of flight
What is a launch rod?
This is the name of the wind that blows across the path of a kite, aircraft, or other object
What is a crosswind?
What is an astronaut?
This is the name of the place where airplanes take off and land
What is an airport?
This is the name of a rising body of warm air
What is a thermal?
This is the system that is responsible for the return of the rocket safely to the ground
What is the recovery system?
This is the title of a person who studies weather
What is a meteorologist?
This is the part of the rocket that acts like feathers on an arrow to guide it in a flight pattern
What are the fins?
This is an airplane with two sets of wings, one above the other
What is a biplane?
Often thought of when referencing water, this is the term describing why hot air balloons float
What is buoyancy?
This is the name of the force that causes the parachute to help the rocket return safely
What is drag?
Most commonly seen at an airport, this cone shaped, open-ended cloth catches the wind and shows wind direction
What is a windsock?
These are the four forces of flight
What are lift, weight or gravity, drag, and thrust?
What is a hangar?
This is a basket or cabin that hangs beneath a balloon
What is a gondola?
This term means designed with rounded edges to decrease wind drag and increase efficiency
What is aerodynamic?
Wind speed, when referencing aviation, is given in these units
What are knots?
This force of flight is opposite drag
What is thrust?
This is a light or other signal indicating direction
What is a beacon
This is a long cigar-shaped bag filled with a gas lighter-than-air and powered by an engine
What is a Dirigible
This is the name of the object that attaches the nosecone to the model rocket
What is the shock cord?
This term, given in aviation weather reports means the temperature at which condensation and evaporation are equal
What is the dewpoint?
This is the area on the shuttle's middeck where food is prepared
What is the galley?