Basics of Flight
History of Aviation
Hot Air Balloons
Helicopters
Aviation Weather
100
These are the 4 forces of flight.
What are lift, weight, drag & thrust?
100
The state the first plane, the Wright Flyer, was flown. 100 bonus if you know the exact date.
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina on December 17, 1903
100
How hot air balloons can fly.
What is hot air that is less dense than the air outside?
100
Helicopters usually fly around this altitude? 100 bonus if you can tell me why?
What is 10,000 feet? The higher a helicopter flies, the less dense the air is.
100
A wind that blows in the direction of movement.
A wind that blows in the opposite direction.
A wind that blows across an object's direction of travel.
Name them in order
What is a tailwind, headwind, and crosswind?
200
This term in fluid dynamics states that an increase in the speed of a fluid occurs simultaneously with a decrease in pressure.
What is Bernoulli's principle?
200
The plane that dropped the first American atomic bomb over Japan. 100 point bonus if you know who the pilot was?
What was the American Boeing B-29 Superfortress - Enola Gay?
Paul Tibbetts was the Pilot.
200
The military use of hot air balloons.
What is reconnaissance?
200
Counter acts the torque generated by the main rotor.
What is a tail rotor.
200
Caused by warm air rising and cold air sinking and is at a minimum during the morning and increases throughout the day.
What is thermal turbulence?
300
The three parts of the plane that control pitch, roll and yaw.
What are elevators, ailerons and rudders?
300
The Wright Brother that flew the first plane.
Who is Orville?
300
The first American War that hot air balloons were used in.
What is the Civil War?
300
Finish this statement, Helicopters don"t fly....
What is They beat the air into submission.
300
Causes icing on wings.
What is freezing rain?
400
This is the direction you will be going if while in a flight pattern, you take off and turn left twice.
What is downwind?
400
America's first ever jet aircraft.
What is the Bell XP-59A?
400
The location of the first hot air balloon flight.
100 bonus points if you also know the pilot(s) and the year.
The first hot air balloon flight took place in France on September 19, 1783, and was launched by the Montgolfier brothers.
400
US Army gives this award to helicopter pilots who have minimized the loss of life by using outstanding airmanship during an emergency.
What is the "Broken Wing" award?
400
Is the cause for most weather phenomena.
What is temperature variation?
500
The 3 axes of a plane.
That is longitudinal axis, Vertical axis, and lateral axis. 
500
The date Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.
What is December, 7 1941?
500
A law that states that the volume of an ideal gas is directly proportional to the absolute temperature at constant pressure.
500
A maneuver using air going up through the blades instead of engine power.
What is auto-rotation?
500
The term for wind that encounters a solid object that creates turbulence.
What are wind shears?
600
The angle at which relative wind meets the wing?
Hint AOA.
What is angle of attack?
600
This plane broke the speed record in 1974 and holds it to this day.
What is the SR-71 Blackbird?
600
The first hot air balloon carried 3 unusual passengers and stayed in the air for how many minutes?
What is a sheep, a duck, and a rooster.
It stayed aloft for about 15 minutes.
600
3 advantages and 2 disadvantages of a helicopter.
What is not needing runways, landing anywhere, accessing small places.
What is not being able to fly as fast or as high as airplanes.
600
Warm air expands and cool air contracts changing what physical property of air?
What is air density?
Higher temps = lower air density and lower aircraft performance