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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

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