Types of Flight
The difference between gliding and true flight.
What is the propeller?
A force that causes weight.
What is gravity?
The science of building and using rockets
What is rocketry?
Aerodynamics
What is the study of how air moves?
Flying squirrels, parachutes, and elm seeds have this in common.
What is gliding?
The three axes of air plane movement.
What are Yaw, Roll, and Pitch?
What is drag?
Lady Yaw Yaw
Something helicopters can do that airplanes cannot.
What is hovering?
Hot air balloons, dirigibles, and blimps.
What are lighter-than-air craft?
The rudder controls this axis
What is YAW
States that the faster air moves, the less dense it is.
What is Bernoulli's principle?
Burning fuel produces hot gasses which create thrust.
What moves a rocket?
Differences in the density of air. Heated air expands. Faster air is less dense.
What causes lift?
Who made the first parachute flight?
The first aircraft used this to increase stability.
What are two wings?
Thrust
Having a sleek, smooth shape
What is streamlined?
Flew the first plane in Kitty Hawk, NC 1903
Who are Orville and Wilbur Wright?
An object, like a wing, whose shape or tilt changes the air flow around it.
What is an airfoil?
Flaps on the back of the plane's wings that control the roll axis.
What are Ailerons?
The four forces that act on a moving airplane.
What are Lift, Drag, Thrust, and Weight?
The breakthrough that made space-flight possible.
What is the liquid-fuel rocket?
The study and engineering of airplanes.
What is aeronautics