History of Flight
This event in 1903 marked the first powered, controlled flight by the Wright brothers.
What is the first flight at Kitty Hawk?
This force, generated by wings, allows an airplane to rise into the air.
What is lift?
This part of an airplane is used to control yaw.
What is the rudder?
This type of aircraft has wings that do not move, like a commercial airliner.
What is a fixed-wing aircraft?
These brothers designed and flew the first powered airplane in 1903.
Who are Orville and Wilbur Wright?
This type of aircraft, filled with hot air or gas, was flow by the Montgolfier brothers in 1783.
What is a hot air balloon?
This force opposes an aircraft’s motion through the air, slowing it down.
What is drag?
These surfaces on the wings control an airplane’s roll.
What are ailerons?
This aircraft uses rotating blades to achieve lift, allowing vertical takeoff.
What is a helicopter?
This woman was the first to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
This World War I era pilot, known as the "Red Baron," was a famous flying ace.
Who is Manfred von Richthofen?
This principle explains how air moving faster over a wing’s curved surface creates lift.
What is Bernoulli’s principle?
This component, located at the rear of an airplane, controls pitch by moving up or down.
What is the elevator?
This lighter-than-air aircraft is filled with helium.
What is a blimp (or airship)?
This engineer designed the first successful liquid-fueled rocket in 1926.
Who is Robert Goddard?
This 1927 solo transatlantic flight by Charles Lindbergh was a major aviation milestone.
What is the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic?
These four forces must be balanced for an airplane to maintain level flight.
What are lift, weight, thrust, and drag?
This instrument, found in the cockpit, measures an aircraft’s altitude above sea level using atmospheric pressure.
What is the altimeter?
This type of aircraft, like a drone, operates without a pilot on board.
What is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)?
This German scientist contributed to the U.S. space program, including the Saturn V rocket.
Who is Wernher von Braun?
This 1969 event involved humans landing on the moon, a pinnacle of aerospace achievement.
What is the Apollo 11 mission?
This term describes the angle between an aircraft’s wing and the oncoming airflow, affecting lift.
What is the angle of attack?
These adjustable surfaces on the wings are used during takeoff and landing to increase lift.
What are flaps?
This type of aircraft, propelled by jet engines and designed for high-speed military operations, is built for stealth to evade radar detection.
What is a stealth fighter (or stealth aircraft)?
This astronaut was the first human to walk on the moon in 1969.
Who is Neil Armstrong?