Aviation

Theory of flight

100

A situation where the airflow over a wing is insufficient to generate enough lift (air becomes turbulent)

What is a stall?

200

the four forces on an airplane

What is lift,drag,weight, and thrust

300

A wing designed to create drag while generating additional lift

What are the flaps

400

When speed increases, pressure decreases

What is Bernoulli's principle

500

Complete this sentence. Flying_______!

What is fun!

Aircraft Controls

100

The vertical, moving part on the tail

What is the rudder

200

The horizontal, moving part on the tail

What is the elevator

300

What makes an airplane roll

What are the ailerons

400

Rotation around the vertical axis

What is yaw

500

The control surface that makes an airplane climb or descend

What is the elevators

Aircraft Parts

100

Term for the wheels assembly

What is the landing gear

200

The covering around the engine

What is an engine cowling

300

The name for the body of the airplane

What is fuselage

400

The portion of the plane where the pilots and crew sit

What is the cockpit?

500

This kind of airplane has two sets of wings

What is a biplane?

Important aviators

100

The first brothers to make and fly a airplane

Who are the Wright brothers

200

First pilot to fly faster then the speed of sound

Who is Chuck Yeager

300

The first woman aviator to fly across the Atlantic Ocean by herself

Who is Amelia Earhart

400

He was the first person to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean

Who was Charles Lindbergh

500

The most recent Canadian in space

Who was Jeremy Hansen

Miscellaneous

100

What are three types of aircraft engines

What are pistons, jets, and rockets

200

Pressure does this as altitude increases

What is decreases?

300

the name of the supports under a wing

What is wing struts?

400

Was the Wright brother's airplane a biplane or monoplane?

What is biplane

500

These layers, in order, comprise the atmosphere

Troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, and thermosphere