Principles of Flight
These are the four forces of flight
What are lift, drag, thrust, gravity?
This is the date that the Wright Brothers made their first flight
What is December 17, 1903?
These are the VFR minimums for Class D airspace
What are 500 feet below clouds, 1,000 feet above clouds, 2,000 feet horizontal to clouds, and 3 statute miles of visibility?
This person is known as the "Father of Modern Rocketry"
Who is Dr. Robert H. Goddard?
This galaxy is the one our solar system lives in.
What is the Milky Way?
This term describes the angle between the chord line of a wing and the relative wind
This is the Air Force pilot who made the first solo transatlantic flight in 1927
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
This is what Vx means
What is the speed for the best angle of climb?
This is the force that pushes a rocket forward by expelling gases backward
What is thrust?
This is the term for the space between the Earth and the Moon
What is cislunar space?
This theory explains how air flows over wings to generate lift
What is Bernoulli's Principle?
This NASA program, beginning in the 1960s, focused on landing humans on the Moon
What is the Apollo program?
What is Class A airspace?
This famous law by Sir Isaac Newton explains how rockets work: for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton's Third Law of Motion?
This is the only planet known to rotate in a clockwise manner
What is Venus?
This occurs when an aircraft exceeds its critical angle of attack and airflow separates from the wing
What is a stall?
This test pilot became the first human to break the sound barrier in 1947
Who is Chuck Yeager?
This type of cloud has the greatest turbulence
What are Cumulonimbus clouds?
This term describes the speed a rocket must reach to break free from Earth’s gravity
What is escape velocity?
This is the part of the sun that gives off light (ends in -sphere)
What is the Photosphere?
Civil Air Patrol operates one of the largest fleet of this type of aircraft in the world
What is single-engine piston aircraft?
This is the name of the first human to orbit Earth, launched by the Soviet Union in 1961
Who is Yuri Gagarin?
This is the definition of a high-performance airplane
What is an airplane with more than 200 horsepower?
This country was the first to develop and use gunpowder rockets for military purposes, around the 13th century
What is China?
This term describes the speed a spacecraft must reach to enter a stable orbit around a celestial body
What is orbital velocity?