Basic Airplane Parts

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