Airplane Flight Project Jeopardy

Flight Controls

100

What is the device used to control the wheel for steering the plane?

Yoke

200

If you push forward on the yoke, what does the plane do?

Pitch down

300

If you pull towards you on the yoke, what does the plane do?

Pitch up

400

What controls the power of the engine?

Throttle Quad

500

What are the control pedals used for steering the plane?

Rudder Pedals 

Parts of an Airplane

100

Whats the part of the airplane that carries pasengers?

Fuselage

200

Attached to the Fuselage and provides lift for landing and takeoff?

Wings

300

Whats the power unit that spins the proppeler?

Engine

400

What is the vertical control surface on the tail that is used to ajust the YAW motion and is controlled by the rudder pedals

Rudder

500

What control surface on the wing that and down and ajusts the planes roll motion?

Aileron

Forces of Flight

100

What is the flow of air called?

Aerodynamics

200

What is it called when the airplane goes up?

Lift

300

What force does the plane create through the throttle quad?

Thrust

400

What pulls the plane back in the air?

Drag

500

What is the force related to the downward drag of the airplane?

Gravity/Weight

Flight Instruments

100

What shows the planes speed in knots?

Airspeed Indicator 

200

What shows how many feet per minute the plane is going up or down?

Vertical Speed Indicator

300

What shows when the plane is flying level or  the plane's in a Slip or Skid?

Turn Coordinator

400

What displays the planes wings and nose in relation to the horizen to help the plane fly stright?

Artificial Horizon

500

What is llike a compass and mesures the planes heading in 360 degrees?

Directional Gyro