FORCES OF FLIGHT
PARTS OF A HANG GLIDER
STREEING
VOCABULARY
MISCELLANEOUS
100
The force that pulls an object downward.
What is gravity?
100
It holds you in the hang glider.
What is a harness?
100
Controls pitch.
What is elevators?
100
The body of the plane.
What is fuselage?
100
An aircraft that can take off or land vertically.
What is a helicopter?
200
The force that moves a plane forward.
What is thrust?
200
A steel bar down the middle of the glider.
What is the King post?
200
Controls roll.
What is ailerons?
200
Moving air creates a low pressure area.
What is Bernoulli's principle?
200
An object designed to obtain maximum lift when moving though the air (wing, rudder).
What is airfoil?
300
The opposite of gravity.
What is lift?
300
A polyester cloth used like wings on a plane.
What is a sail?
300
Controls yaw.
What is rudder?
300
The direction in which the plane is pointing in relation to the earths surface (banking, pitch, yaw) or the relation of the wings and nose to the horizon.
what is altitude?
300
That strange liquid that make aircrafts fly.
What is fuel?
400
The resistance air exerts on a flying object.
What is drag?
400
They help steer the hang glider.
What are flying wires?
400
Helps with take off and landing.
What is a propeller?
400
The upward slanting of wings away from the fuselage.
What is Dihedral Angle?
400
Small surfaces that can be moved to alter airflow and change an airplanes altitude.
What is control surfaces.
500
Relative heaviness.
What is weight?
500
Helps keep the sail up.
What are luff lines?
500
Helps reduce lift.
What are spoilers?
500
The ability of an object to float or rise when placed in a fluid.
What is buoyance?
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