These brother's are responsible for launching their glider at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Who are the Wright Brothers or Wilbur and Orville Wright?
100
This is the upward force caused by the flow of air above and below an airfoil.
What is lift?
100
This was one of the first kinds of aircraft, developed by China and flown nearly 3,000 years ago.
What are kites?
100
To make a plane change directions, a pilot must use several of these at the same time.
What are controls?
100
She was the first woman to take a nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic, but never returned.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
200
These brothers are credited for taking their invention, the hot air-balloon, on its first flight in 1783.
Who are the Montfolfier brothers?
200
This is the force that pulls objects toward the Earth.
What is Gravity?
200
In 1903, the Wright Brothers built one of these light enough to add to one of their gliders. In fact, it worked so well, that it took them on the worlds first flight.
What is an engine?
200
This is a device made of blades that spin around a shaft, used to produce thrust for an airplane.
What is a propeller?
200
He created the first early designs for the parachute, glider, and helicopter.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
300
Around 1800 George Cayley of England discovered that a kite with arched wings and a tail could glide through the air without a breeze to lift it or a string to guide it. This was the first ________.
What is glider?
300
This is the study of how air pushes and pulls on objects.
What is Aerodynamics.
300
The military uses these types of engines to reach very high speeds in their planes.
What is a ramjet engine?
300
A glider is an aircraft without an engine that is carried along by these.
What are air currents?
300
The first artificial Earth satellite, the Sputnik 1, was created in this country.
What is the Soviet Union?
400
He was the first person to lidt off the ground in an aircraft with power.
Who is Felix du Temple?
400
This is the force that moves an object forward.
What is thrust?
400
Modern day planes today are made of these two metals.
What are aluminum and steel.
400
Helicopters use these to create lift for flight. They are made from blades that ship around a shaft.
What is a rotor?
400
This country can be credited for the first space shuttle flight, aboard the Columbia 1.
What is the United States?
500
In 1926 this man tested the fist liquid-fuel rocket. His engine used gasoline and liquid oxygen and made space slight possible.
Who is Robert Goddard?
500
This is the force acting on a moving object in the opposite direction of the object's movement, slowing the object down.
What is drag?
500
One of the most sought after inventions, the airplane, has these four forces that act on it to create flight.
What are weight, lift, thrust, and drag.
500
A pilot uses this U shaped steering wheel to control an airplane.
What is a yoke?
500
He was among the first people to travel to the moon, alongside Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr and Micheal Collins.