Flight

If an airplane engine cut out in midair, which force would decrease almost immediately?

• Gravity

• Thrust

• Weight

• Drag

What word describes the following shape?

• Airway

• Airfoil

• Aeron

• Airflow

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What can you infer from the fact that airplane wings and birds' wings have similar shapes?

• That birds fly better than airplanes because they existed first

• That birds and airplanes take off in the exact same way

• That airplane wings were originally covered in feathers

• That aircraft engineers studied birds' wings when they designed plane wings

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When might you feel the force of drag in everyday life?

• When you take an elevator upward

• When you stick your hand out the window of a moving car

• When you sit under a ceiling fan

• When you take an escalator downward

Why don't jumbo jets have propellers?

• Because their wings are aerodynamically shape

• Because only helicopters have propellers

• Because jet engines provide more thrust

• Because they are powered be jet fueled, not friction

Identify the elevators on the airplane below

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What is the meaning of lift as it relates to an airplane?

• Upward Delivery

• Forward Motion

• Upward Force

• Backward Force

Passengers on an airplane fly in what part?

• Cockpit

• Fuselage

• Flight Deck

• Luggage Hold

Identify the fuselage on the airplane below

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What is the safest (statistically speaking) way to travel?

• By bus

• By car

• By plane

• Motorcycle