Fun Facts
What affects the smooth flying of an airplane ?
What is a turbulance?
The movement of a plane on the ground is called this
What is taxing?
Aircraft rests on this
What is the landing gear?
The end of an aircraft is called
What is the tail?
The fastest jet aircraft
The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird?
The largest cause of air traffic delays
What is the weather?
What are Newton's laws of?
What is motion?
Earth's path around the sun is called this
What is an orbit?
These parts reduce the vortices
What are wingtips?
The world's largest aircraft
What is the Antonov AN-124 Ruslan/Condor?
Nearly every day CAP pilots escort these from Syracuse to Fort Drum for training
What are Reapers/drones?
Name the Four Forces of Flight
What is lift, drag, thrust, gravity/weight?
The vertical height of an aircraft above sea level.
What is altitude?
This part is connected by cables to the elevator, which is hinged to the horizontal stabilizer
What is Control Stick/Stick/ Joystick?
Name the largest military base (based on population)
What is Fort Bragg?
Name the world's smallest jet aircraft
What is the Bede BD-5?
To change course
What is divert?
The NAOTO Phonemic Alphabet is known as
What is Alpha Code?
The high drag devices that are fitted to almost all high-performance military aircraft as well as some commercial aircrafts are called
What are airbrakes/speed brakes?
The aircraft with the longest wing length
What is the Stratolaunch?
In 2016 CAP helped take this amount (worth in US dollars) in illegal drugs from being imported to the US
What is 1 Billion dollars?
Wind blowing perpendicular to the aircraft course
What is crosswind?
The nickname "George" is given to
What is the autopilot?
James Kemper invented this to suit modern aviation needs
What is the lavatory?
The world's tallest control tower is located
What is New Bangkok International Airport in Thailand?