Intro to Flight
These are the three primary control surfaces on an airplane.
What are the aileron, elevator, and rudder?
This instrument provides information about the height of an aircraft above sea level.
What is an Altimeter?
The four blue rectangles at the center of the picture denotes this landmark on the sectional chart.
What is Nashville International Airport? Blue rectangles are hard surface controlled airports.
This is the name of the boundary line between two different air masses.
What is a Front?
The artificial force opposing gravity created by moving a lifting surface through the air. One of the four forces of flight.
What is lift?
This is the shape of a wing, similar to a tear drop, that is specifically designed to produce lift, thrust, or directional stability.
What is an airfoil?
This instrument provides the pilot with directional information, similar to a compass, so that the pilot knows which direction the aircraft is facing.
What is the Heading Indicator or Directional Gyro?
The first group of numbers in the information block under the Nashville International Airport title denotes this important information.
What is the control tower radio frequency?
This is a whirling funnel of air of very low pressure and very strong winds. It may be powerful enough to suck up anything in its path.
What is a tornado?
The push or pull of an object that causes the object to change its velocity. It is equal to mass multiplied by acceleration.
What is a Force?
This is the angle between the relative wind and the chord line of an aircraft wing.
What is the angle of attack?
This instrument is the only flight instrument to use both static and ram air pressure, and it provides the pilot with the speed of the aircraft relative to the wind.
What is the Airspeed Indicator?
The magenta circles around Nashville airport denotes this type of airspace.
What is Class C airspace?
This is the thunderstorm cloud.
What is the Cumulonimbus cloud?
An object at rest will remain at rest unless acted upon by an unbalanced, outside force.
What is Newton's 1st law of motion?
This is the effect that a fluid tends to stick to a surface.
This flight instrument uses static air pressure along with a calibrated leak to give the pilot information about the rate of change in altitude the aircraft is experiencing.
What is the Vertical Speed Indicator?
This is the elevation of the Smyrna Airport according to the sectional.
What is 543 ft. above sea level?
This is the fundamental cause of our various weather conditions on earth.
What is the unequal heating of the earth's surface by the sun?
This is the transfer of heat through vertical motion.
What is convection heating?
These two brothers are credited with achieving the first powered flight with their balloon in 1783.
Who are the Montgolfier brothers?
This instrument, also known as an inclinometer, will inform the pilot if they are performing a bank turn in a stable or unstable manner.
What is the Turn Coordinator?
The magenta letters right next to Nashville Airport tell this information.
What is the class C airspace begins at the surface and extends to 4,600 ft. above sea level?
This is the 4th and hottest layer of the atmosphere. It begins at about 50 miles up and extends to about 300 miles.
This is the ability or tendency of a mass to float.
What is Buoyancy?