Balloons
Early Airships
Plane Parts
Forces on a Plane
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Seeing where the enemy is located on a battle
field
What is Aerial reconnaissance
100
A balloon that can be steered
What is a dirigible?
100
The part of the plane that helps it steer
What is a rudder?
100
The pull, or slowing effect, of air on an aircraft
What is drag?
100
A legal document protecting the rights of an inventor
What is a patent?
200
People who travel in airships or balloons
What is an aeronaut?
200
This gas makes these balloons lighter than air.
What is helium?
200
An engine in which the fuel is burned inside. It is the same type of engine that is in a car.
What is an internal combustion engine
200
The forward force driving an aircraft
What is thrust?
200
Multi-bladed aircraft that can hover
What is a helicopter?
300
This is needed to create the hot air to make the balloon lighter than air.
What is fire?
300
The Army used this gas to fill its early balloons to win battles in the Spanish American War
What was helium?
300
An airplane with one set of wings
What is a monoplane?
300
What is the force pushing the plane upward?
What is lift?
300
This man was the inventor of the aerodrome
Who was Samuel Langley?
400
We used these to make our own hot air balloons
What are either garbage bags or dry cleaner bags?
400
What did the early inventors try to achieve that birds do naturally?
What is the movement of a bird's wing?
400
Creates the thrust that makes the plane move foward.
What is a propeller?
400
This force makes the plane go downward
What is gravity?
400
These people use kites to wage war against in the early days of flight
What were the Chinese?
500
Early balloons
were made of these materials.
What is paper or rubber?
500
A disadvantage of using hydrogen in an airship.
What is flammable?
500
These wheels are used to get the plane safely on the ground when it lands on the runway
What is the landing gear?
500
This plane uses three winds to generate a lot of lift.
What is a triplane?
500
He invented this wooden machine that replicated the movement of a bird.s wings.
Who was Leonardo Davinci