Fly, You Fools!
It's 120 degrees in this desert & you want to drive from L.A. to Vegas in your 1969 jalopy? Take a plane!
The Mojave
The name of this element begins with a synonym for "automobile"
Carbon
These rod-shaped structures in a cell's nucleus carry its genetic information
Chromosomes
Descartes' maxim "Cogito ergo sum" means I do this "therefore I am"
I think
Seeking a place for test flights with strong winds, privacy & sand for soft landings, the Wrights wrote a letter to the U.S. weather bureau & received a list of possible locations; this small fishing village on North Carolina's Outer Banks was just perfect
Kitty Hawk
Over 1,700 miles, the Outback Way is called this continent's "longest shortcut"--try Qantas
Australia
This element, No. 16 on the periodic table, has a pelt at the end of its name
Sulfur
Rocks that have been environmentally altered from other rocks make up this class, from Greek for "change" & "form"
Metamorphic
Some oppose speciesism, which denies the rights of these
animals
Frustrated with the data then available concerning wing & propeller designs, the Wrights built their own wind tunnel & tested dozens of models to see what shapes produced the most lift & the least of this force--the resistance to forward motion
drag
This waterway's land bridge once connected Asia & N. America, but I'm not waiting for it to happen again; book us a flight!
The Bering Strait
You'll find a short term for a graduate of a particular college in this abundant metallic element
Aluminum
Pass the this, defined as a substance produced by the reaction of a base & an acid
salt
Add 4 letters to the front of a Nobel Prize category to get this inquiry into the nature of the universe
metaphysics
To provide more thrust, the Wrights used two propellers driven by a bicycle chain & sprocket; the laminated spruce propellers were carved by hand & mounted so they'd rotate in opposite directions, canceling out this twisting force
Torque
Traffic is horrible around the Big Apple--take a chopper to JFK from this Jersey airport, EWR
Newark
Atomic number 35, this element begins with the first name of Ichabod Crane's rival
Bromine
These subatomic particles are named for physicist Enrico
fermions
7-letter term for a philosopher who customarily doubts knowledge
skeptic
A device called an elevator was placed on the front of the Wrights' plane for more efficiency & to protect the pilot in case of a crash; operated by a lever, it adjusted this upward and downward motion of the plane's nose
Pitch
Avalanches & heavy snow plague this pass connecting Kabul with Peshawar, so try an aerial route
The Khyber Pass
This element that's "ph" balanced (it has 2 of them) ends with the name of an Egyptian falcon god
Phosphorus
This "theory" views subatomic particles as threadlike one-dimensional entities, not zero-dimensional points
string theory
In 1887 this German published "The Genealogy of Morals"
Nietzsche
A piece of the fabric from the left wing of the original 1903 Wright Flyer, as well as a piece of the airplane’s left propeller, were taken to the moon by this aeronautical pioneer, a fellow Ohio native
Neil Armstrong