Introduction to Flight
Aircraft Systems and Airports
Air
Environment
Space Environment
Rockets and Spacecraft
100
This is the control surface of an airplane that that turns the nose left or right.
What is the Rudder?
100
The threshold lights at the beginning of a runway are this color.
What is Green?
100
This is the most dangerous part of a thunderstorm.
What is Lightning?
100
This is the largest planet in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
100
This Russian satellite was the first artificial satellite in space.
What is Sputnik?
200
This is the front part of a wing or airfoil.
What is the Leading Edge?
200
This describes differences in elevation on maps by using different colors and tints.
What is Relief?
200
These low-level clouds are uniform and flat.
What are Stratus Clouds?
200
These are chunks of rock in space that range from particles of dust to objects a few hundred miles across.
What are Asteroids?
200
This American manned space flight made history with the first lunar landing.
What was Apollo 11?
300
These two of the four forces of flight are known as the "Artificial Forces."
What are Lift and Thrust?
300
This is the "gate" in the carburetor that controls the amount of air going into it.
What is the Throttle Valve?
300
This layer of the atmosphere extends from sea level up to 20,000 feet from the poles.
What is the Troposphere?
300
These are the doughnut-shaped "clouds" of charged particles trapped by earth's magnetic field.
What are the Van Allen Radiation Belts?
300
This spaceflight project's mission was to put a laboratory into space.
Who was Skylab?
400
This is the main body of a hot air balloon that is filled with lighter-than-air gas.
What is the Envelope?
400
This kind of reciprocating engine is tall and slim for aerodynamic efficiency.
What is an In-Line Engine?
400
This is the area of came between the converging trade winds.
What are the Doldrums?
400
This is the unit of measurement used to measure distances in our solar system.
What is the Astronomical Unit?
400
This system of a rocket is its "brain."
What is the Guidance System?
500
This theory of lift states that the air split over the leading edge of the wing meets together at the trailing edge.
What is the Theory of Equal Transit Time?
500
These are the five steps in the cycle of a reciprocating engine.
What is Intake, Compression, Ignition, Power, and Exhaust?
500
This tool for estimating wind speed was invented in 1805 and can be used on land or sea.
What is the Beaufort Scale?
500
These are larger and longer lasting solar flares.
What are Solar Prominences?
500
He was the first American to orbit the earth.
Who is John Glen?
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