Primary Flight Controls
The movement up or down related to an aircraft in flight is known as
These reduce control pressures.
What is trim tabs?
Fluids are used to transmit stick forces to control forces.
What is hydraulics?
The body of an aircraft is called
What is the fuselage?
In what year did the Wright Brothers make the world's first powered, manned, controlled flight?
What was 1903?
The moveable, horizontal surface that controls the pitch of an aircraft.
Deployed on the top of wings to reduce lift and increase drag.
What are spoilers?
Rods and pulleys are used to transmit stick forces to control forces.
What is mechanical?
What is an airfoil?
The pilot that was known as America's Ace of Aces during WWI.
Who is Eddie Rickenbacker?
The sidewise movement of an aircraft in flight is called
What is yaw?
Trailing edge device that increases lift and drag.
What are flaps?
Electronic signals are used to transmit stick forces to control surfaces.
What is fly-by-wire?
A principle of aerodynamics.
What is air is a fluid?
The first man to break the sound barrier.
Who was Chuck Yeager?
The device on the wings of an aircraft that are used for controlling turns and rolling an aircraft.
What is the ailerons?
Leading edge flaps and trailing edge flaps are used to increase both CL-MAX and the __________ of the wings.
What is camber?
The flight control systems a pilot uses to control the forces of flight and the aircraft’s direction and _________.
What is attitude?
In straight and level flight, the sum of the four forces of flight.
What is zero?
The aircraft that was the primary MiG simulator in Top Gun.
What is the A-4 Skyhawk?
The surface works on the vertical axis of rotation.
What is rudder?
There are four common types of flaps. Name two.
What are plain, split, slotted, and Fowler flaps?
Current research at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Dryden Flight Research Center involves ___________________.
What is Intelligent Flight Control Systems (IFCS)?
Name the acronym: AOA.
What is angle of attack?
First American woman to earn a pilot's license.
Who was Harriet Quimby?