Flight Vocab by Cheese_Person and TRL
Mr. Science's flight test
Terms
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- Lift
- Pushes plane up
- Flap
- A movable airfoil that is part of an aircraft wing near the fuselage
- Directional
- Yaw; the angle of the aircraft in the side to side direction.
- Orville and Wilbur
- Wright brothers
- Georgia Dome
- Where did Ken Blackburn fly the world record paper airplane?
- 10
- how many good throws does it take for Ken Blackburns arm to be tired?
- Camber
- The curvature of the wing leading to the edge
- Wright Brothers
- invented and flew 1st plane
- 60 mph
- How fast Blackburn's arm travels at launch
- 27.6
- how many seconds and milliseconds was Ken Blackburns flight?
- Ken Blackburn
- Made world-record plane for longest duration flight, works out with a trainer to keep arm in shape
- Airfoil
- Wing, tail, rudder
- Gravity
- Pulls plane down
- Dihedral
- The V-shape the wing makes or the angle between the wing and the horizontal., The V-shape the wing makes or the angle between the wing and the horizontal.
- Thrust
- Pushes plane forward
- Aileron
- An airfoil that controls lateral motion far from the fuselage
- Pitch
- Keeps the planes nose from going too far up or too far down
- Fuselage
- The body of an airplane
- Drag
- Pulls plane back
- 12-17-1903
- When first powered flight took place
- Spiral
- Stops plane from going round and round in circles