General Knowledge
Who where given credit for the first airplane?
Orville and Wilbur Wright
How many stages are there to your CAP Rocketry Badge?
3 Stages
What do aircraft have that generate lift?
Wings and airfoils.
What purpose are sectional charts to pilots?
Navigation aid
Who was the first man to walk on the moon?
Neil Armstrong
What is the our groups current aircraft?
Cessna 182 Skylane
What are the two components to liquid rocket fuel?
Fuel and Oxidizer
What are the 4 forces acting on an airplane?
Weight, Thrust, Drag, and Lift
What tool is used to find headings, map routes, measure distance and much more?
A sectional chart plotter
What are the three axis of an aircraft?
Pitch, Yaw, Roll
What famous pilot disappeared after trying to circumnavigate the globe?
Amelia Earhart
Name the stages to your CAP Model Rocketry Badge.
Redstone, Titan, and Saturn
What is air often described as?
A fluid
What are the vertical and horizontal lines running through the chart called?
Latitude and Longitude
Who is know as the "Father of Modern Rocketry"?
Robert H. Goddard
Name 2 other types of aircraft CAP flies (Excluding airplanes)
Gliders and a Hot air balloon
What are the two most common types of rocket propellant?
Liquid and solid propellant
What principle helps prove lift?
Bernoulli's Principle
What is an MOA
Military Operation Area
What does Bernoulli's principle state?
As a fluids speed increases, its pressure decreases.
What physicist laid the groundwork for modern rocketry?
Sir Isaac Newton
List the 3 most basic parts of a rocket
Propulsion System, Structural System, Payload/Guidance
Name 3 parts of an airfoil.
Leading edge, upper camber, lower camber, mean camber, chord, trailing edge
What marks a restricted area on a VFR Sectional Chart?
Blue, hashed lines.
What is another less-known principle of lift?
Newtonian Lift