Air & Bernoulli
Flight
Nature's Flight Designs
Human Flight Designs
Flight History
100
An airless place
What is a vacuum?
100
The number of basic forces that act on a flying object
What is four?
100
These bones form the wing area of a bat
What are fingers?
100
Helicopter wings
What are rotors?
100
Otto Lilienthal is known for this type of aircraft
What is a hanglider?
200
78% of air is this
What is nitrogen?
200
IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER, these are the four forces acting on a flying object
What are drag, gravity, lift, and thrust? OR What are drag, lift, thrust, and weight?
200
These seeds appear to be fur-covered
What is milkweed?
200
The ability to take off and land this way is part of a helicopter's value
What is vertically?
200
The Montgolfier brothers were the first to do this, in 1782
What is launch a hot air balloon?
300
The percentage of air that is oxygen
What is 21%?
300
These two items provide thrust for a non-jet plane
What are an engine and propeller?
300
Bats spread seeds through this, as it is called in Spanish
What is guano?
300
This aircraft is similar to a helicopter, but it cannot hover
What is an autogiro?
300
Canadians did this first, in 2010
What is fly a human powered ornithopter?
400
Bernoulli's discovery
What is "As air moves ACROSS an object, it pushes DOWN less on an object"
400
This force opposes thrust
What is drag?
400
This plant's large seed pods are blown by the wind to that they fly/roll
What is a tumbleweed?
400
These three gases have been used to filled blimps or flying balloons
What are hot air, helium, and hydrogen?
400
The first human powered airplane (1977)
What is The Gossamer Condor?
500
When a plane flies, air moves ? under the wing than over it.
What is "slower?"
500
These adjust drag on a plane
What are wing flaps?
500
The spelling of this synonym of "air-filled", which describes a bird's bones
What is P-N-E-U-M-A-T-I-C ?
500
A balloon/blimp must do this if it can fly
What is displace a mass of air equal to its own mass?
500
The Wright brothers historic flight occurred this many years ago
What is 110? (1903)
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