Science flight vocab
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- Aileron
- Hinging the main wing surfaces that help control banking for a turn
- 4th flight of thew Wrights
- 1st successful flight of an engine-driven, heavier than air machine
- Laws of Motion # 3
- When an object is pushed in one direction there is always resistance of the same size in the other direction
- Spiral
- Keeps the plane from spinning and the fuselage from falling
- Charles Lindbergh
- 1st solo Atlantic crossing in Spirit of St. Louis (1927) 3610 miles from NY to Paris took 33 1/2 hours
- Directional
- Keeps the plane from turning to the left or right
- Thrust
- Pushes the plane forward
- Calbraith Rodgers
- 1st flight across the US in a Wright craft, Vin Fiz (1911)
- Airfoil
- A surface part that is flat or curved creating air movement in a specific direction designed to keep the plane up and in control
- 10
- Number of throws before he gets tired
- Forces of flight
- Lift, Drag, Gravity & Thrust
- Gravity
- Pulls the plane down
- Camber
- The slight arching curve of an airfoil from the leading edge to the trailing edge that helps to create lift
- Amelia Earhart
- 1st woman to cross the Atlantic alone in a nonstop flight from Newfoundland to Ireland (1932)
- Laws of Motion #2
- Things move farther and faster when pushed harder and they won't stop moving in that direction unless pushed in another direction
- Thermal
- Rising column of warm air caused by uneven heating of the Earth or sea by the sun
- 27.6
- Seconds plane was in the air
- Drag
- Holds the plane back
- Pitch
- keeps the planes nose from going too far up or down
- Process of Lift
- Fast moving air over the top of the wing creates low air process. Slow moving air on the underside of the wing creates more air pressure which creates lift
- Dick Rutan & Jeana Yeager
- Fly the Voyager nonstop around the world without refueling in 19 days, 3 minutes and 44 seconds (1986)
- Lift
- Pushes the plane up
- Types of stability
- Pitch, Directional, Spiral
- 60 mph
- Traveling speed of hand releasing paper airplane
- Ken Blackburn
- World record holder for laongest duration of a paper aircraft over level ground
- 12/17/1903
- 4th flight at Kitty Hawk, NC by Wilbur Wright was 59 seconds and flew for 852 feet
- Dihedral
- An incline wing angled at the center of the wing to where the fuselage meets
- Rudder
- A movebale airfoil located at the rear stabilizer and used for controlling direction to the right or left
- Flap
- A moveable airfoil hinged at the trailing edge of the wing closer to the fuselage used for increasing lift or drag
- Stabilizer
- Ant horizontal or vertical airfoil in the tail section used to keep the flight steady
- Elevator
- A moveable hinged tail control air foil that causes the planes nose to move up or down
- Laws of Motion #1
- If something isn't moving, it won't start moving by itself and it won't stop unless something pushes it
- Wiley Post
- 1st solo flight around the world traveling 15,596 miles in 7 days, 19 hours and 49 minutes (1933)
- 12/14/1903
- 1st flight at Kitty Hawk, NC by Wilber Wright in Flyer lasting for 3 1/2 seconds
- Louis Bleriot
- 1st person to fly an airplane across the English Channel from France to England (1909)