Air
The mixture of invisible, odourless, tasteless gases (nitrogen and oxygen) that surrounds the Earth.
What is air?
The area where the pilot sits to fly the plane.
What is the cockpit?
Acceleration; The greater the mass of a body, the greater the force needed to accelerate it.
What is Newton's second law?
The properties of this has mass, exerts pressure, takes up space and is fluid (it can flow).
What is air?
These are the four forces acting on a flying object.
What are drag, gravity, lift, and thrust?
The complete center body of an airplane, which the wings, tailplane, and fin are all attached to.
What is the Fuselage?
The ability to take off and land this way is part of a helicopter's value
What is vertically? OR What is straight up and down.
The mathmatician and physicist that explained the Physics of Flight with his three laws of motion.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
The percentage of air that is oxygen
What is 21%?
The area of a plane where passengers travel.
What is the cabin?
inertia; every object in a state of motion tends to remain in that state unless an external force is applied to it.
What is Newton's first law?
The scientist/mathmatician that discovered that "As air moves ACROSS an object, it pushes DOWN less on an object".
Who is Bernoulli?
The flaps closest to the tip of each wing. They are used to turn the airplane.
What are the Aileron?
The first human powered airplane (1977)
What is The Gossamer Condor?
When a plane flies, air moves ? under the wing than over it.
What is "slower?"
This creates drag, and moves the nose of the plane right or left.
What is the rudder?
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton’s Third Law?