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Air & Bernoulli
Flight
Ancient Flight Technologies
Human Flight Designs
Flight History
100
An airless place
What is a vacuum?
100
The number of basic forces that act on a flying object
What is four?
100

This large pointed stone attached to a long shaft was used up to 12,000 years ago and thrown at prey.

What is a spear?

100
Helicopter wings
What are rotors?
100
Otto Lilienthal is known for this type of aircraft
What is a hanglider?
200
The properties of this has mass, exerts pressure, takes up space and is fluid (it can flow)

What is the properties of air?

200

These are the four forces acting on a flying object.

What are drag, gravity, lift, and thrust? 

200

This 8000 year old system was a small dart (spear) made from a medium sized point attached to a foreshaft and could kill a deer from 40m away.

What is the Atlatl and Dart System?

200

The ability to take off and land this way is part of a helicopter's value

What is vertically? OR What is straight up and down.

200
The Montgolfier brothers were the first to do this, in 1782
What is launch a hot air balloon?
300
The percentage of air that is oxygen
What is 21%?
300
These two items provide thrust for a non-jet plane
What are an engine and propeller?
300

This 2000 year old hunting tool was replaced by guns.  It was a small pointed rock attached to a lightweight shaft and shot from the string on a bow.

What is the bow and arrow?

300
This aircraft is similar to a helicopter, but it cannot hover
What is an autogiro?
300
Canadians did this first, in 2010
What is fly a human powered ornithopter?
400
Bernoulli's discovery
What is "As air moves ACROSS an object, it pushes DOWN less on an object"
400
This force opposes thrust
What is drag?
400

This bird told the Inuits the story of light.

What is the crow.

400
These three gases have been used to filled blimps or flying balloons
What are hot air, helium, and hydrogen?
400
The first human powered airplane (1977)
What is The Gossamer Condor?
500
When a plane flies, air moves ? under the wing than over it.
What is "slower?"
500
These adjust drag on a plane
What are wing flaps?
500

The name of this process was where ancient arrowheads were made from fine-grained stones.  A stone was shaped to a sharp point by hitting it with a stone hammer, or by putting pressure on the stone with a piece of bone or antler to flake pieces off the edge of the stone.  

What is flint-napping?

500
A balloon/blimp must do this if it can fly
What is displace a mass of air equal to its own mass?
500

The Wright brothers historic flight occurred this many years ago

What is 118? (1903)