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Leonardo da Vinci
Key Ancient Aviation Devices
Daniel Bernoulli
Sir Isaac Newton
Vocabulary
100
The famous painting da Vinci is known for.
What is the Mona Lisa?
100
The Chinese invented this device around 1000 BC.
What is a kite?
100
Mr. Bernouolli was born in what year?
What is 1700?
100
He was born in this country.
What is England?
100
This defines a parachute.
What is a device intended to slow free fall from an aircraft or another high point?
200
Da Vinci was fascinated with these creatures.
What is birds?
200
In the eight hundreds, the Chinese made an important invention known as.
What is gunpowder?
200
Daniel Bernoulli made an important discovery about what phenomenon?
What is the relationship between pressure and fluids?
200
His third law states this principle.
What is "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction"?
200
This is a large, cylindrical object that moves very fast by forcing burning gases out one end of the tube.
What is a rocket?
300
Another profession da Vinci was known for, besides being an artist.
What is a scientist
300
200 years after the invention of gunpowder, the Chinese were using it to make the first of these.
What is a rocket?
300
He made this important discovery about fluid that is not moving.
What is it has a constant pressure?
300
What principle of flight does Newton's third law affect?
What is lift?
300
This is the definition of a legend.
What is an unverified story handed down from earlier times?
400
It refers to someone who has many talents.
What is "Renaissance Man"?
400
Da Vinci's drawing of an "aerial screw" looks a lot like a modern one of these.
What is a helicopter?
400
He found that when a fluid starts moving faster this occurs.
What is the pressure decreases?
400
His lifespan covered these years.
What is 1643 to 1727?
400
An aircraft that gets its lift from spinning blades.
What is a helicopter?
500
Da Vinci produced the first known design and model for what aviation device?
What is a helicopter?
500
This aircraft was the first to have directional control.
What is a glider?
500
This is another name for Bernoullian Lift.
What is induced lift?
500
This is another name for "Newtonian Lift".
What is dynamic lift?
500
This is the definition of an ornithopter.
What is an aircraft designed to get its support and forward motion from flapping wings?