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- Drag
- Holds the plane back
- Wing
- Holds plane up; helps create lift
- Ken Blackburn
- Time aloft was 27.6 seconds
- Ken Blackburn
- He has about ten good throws before his arm is completely tired
- Newton's Laws of Motion
- #2. Things move farther and faster when pushed harder. These objects always move in the same direction they are pushed unless something changes that direction
- Wright Brothers
- Date of flight: December 17, 1903
- Louis Bleriot
- (1909) First person to fly across the English channel
- Lift
- Pushes the plane up
- Ken Blackburn
- World Record Holder for the duration of a paper aircraft over level ground
- Amelia Earhart
- (1932) first solo women to cross Atlantic from Newfoundland to Ireland
- Newton's Laws of Motion
- #1. If something isn't moving, it won't start moving by itself, and it won't stop unless something pushes against it
- Ken Blackburn
- He works out with a trainer to keep his arm in shape
- Thermal
- Rising Column of warm air, caused by uneven heating of the earth or sea by the sun
- Dick Rutan
- (1961) flew voyager first nonstop flight around world without refueling in Jeana Yeager
- Calbraith Rodgers
- (1911) Flew across the U.S. with a wright aircraft
- Spiral
- Also known as "roll" keeps the plane from spinning or the fuselage from rolling, Dihedral angle helps control this
- Gravity
- Pulls the plane down
- Pitch
- Keeps the planes nose from going too far up or too far down, Elavators on Horizontal Stabilizer help control this
- Aileron
- Hinged main wing surfaces that help control banking for a turn
- Wiley Post
- (1933) first person to fly around the world, was 15,596 miles in seven days and 19 hours and 49 minutes
- Charles Lindbergh
- (1927) -solo Atlantic crossing from New York to Paris, it was 33 and half hours long, 3,610 miles
- Thrust
- Pushes the plane forward
- Elevator
- A movable hinged tail control airfoil that causes the planes nose to go up or down
- Directional
- Also known as "yaw" Keeps the plane from veering to the right or left, rudder and vertical stablizer help control this
- Dihedral
- An incline wing angle from the center of the wing where the fuselage meet, this angle helps to stablize the plane and create lift
- Flap
- A movable airfoil hinged the trailing edge of the wing closer to the fuselage, used for increasing lift or drag.
- Wright Brothers
- Who flew the fourth flight and how far: Wilbur Wright and it lasted 59 seconds
- Stabilizer
- Any horizontal or vertical airfoil in the tail section used for keep ing the planes flight steady, the rudder and elevators are hinged to the stablizers
- Rudder
- A movable airfoil located at the rear stabilizer and used for controlling direction to the right or left.
- Newton's Laws of Motion
- #3. When an object is pushed in one direction, there is always a resistance of the same size in the other direction
- Ken Blackburn
- His hand is traveling (he estimates) at 60 Mph
- Airfoil
- A surface part (wing, tail, or rudder) that is flat or cured creating air movementin a specific direction, designed to keep the plane up and control movement through the air which it passes through
- Camber
- The slight arching curve (convexly) of an airfoil from the leading edge (front of main wing) to the trailing edge (back of wing) this helps create lift