20 questions
An ____________is a vehicle for traveling through the air, and includes lighter-than-air vehicles such as balloons and also vehicles without fixed wings, such as helicopters.
Aircraft
Aerodynamic
Aerostatic
Airlift
The ____________ is powered by an engine (usually just behind the propeller) and the propeller blades create __________to move an airplane forward.
thrust, propeller
lift,drag
propeller, thrust
thrust, drag
The __________is a part of an airplane that produces much of an airplane’s total lift when air flows over it.
aileron
wing
elevator
rudder
The _______________ is the main body of an airplane.
cockpit
window
emmpennage
fuselage
Newton’s First Law of Motion is often called “the law of _____________.”
inertia
momentum
F=MA
Sir Isaac Newton’s Third Law of Motion is also known as “the law of ______________”
inertia
momentum
reaction
Newton’s Second Law of Motion is also known as “the law of _________________.”
inertia
reaction
momentum
The four forces of flight considered in the design of airplane parts are lift, __________, thrust and __________.
gravity, drag
drag, gravity
lift, drag
The Bernoulli Principle: As the velocity of a fluid (including air) increases, its pressure _________________.
increases
slows down
decreases
goes up
The horizontal stabilizer, vertical stabilizer, rudder and elevator together are called the “_______________.”
flaps
empennage
wings
fuselage
The _____________ is used to make the nose of the airplane yaw left or right.
rudder
elevator
ailerons
flaps
The elevator controls “_____________,” or the up-and-down motion of the airplane’s nose.
flaps
lift
pitch
yaw
The three main control surfaces on an airplane are the ailerons, _____________ and elevator.
rudder
flaps
landing gear
tail-fin
The flaps move up or down together, in the same direction at the _________ time.
different
consecutive
offbeat
same
Jet engines allow airplanes to fly faster and at higher altitudes than propeller airplanes.
lower, and slower
faster and higher
faster and lower
lower and faster
The left wing position light on an airplane is __________; the right wing position light is _________.
red, blue
blue, red
red, green
red, white
_________________ usually consists of wheels that the airplane needs to take off and land.
Gear strobe
Landing gear
Landing wheels
The “artificial horizon” instrument in the cockpit gives the pilot information about both pitch and _________.
pitch
yaw
bank
roll
Pulling the yoke back makes the nose of the airplane of go _____________.
left
down
up
right
If an airplane has the horizontal stabilizer located near the top of the vertical stabilizer, it is sometimes called a “____________” airplane.
T-tail
fin
aileron
flaps