Airplane Basics

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 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

The four forces of flight considered in the design of airplane parts are lift, __________, thrust and __________.

• gravity, drag

• drag, gravity

• lift, drag

The horizontal stabilizer, vertical stabilizer, rudder and elevator together are called the “_______________.”

• flaps

• empennage

• wings

• fuselage

The _____________ is used to make the nose of the airplane yaw left or right.

• rudder

• elevator

• ailerons

• flaps

The elevator controls “_____________,” or the up-and-down motion of the airplane’s nose.

• flaps

• lift

• pitch

• yaw

The three main control surfaces on an airplane are the ailerons, _____________ and elevator.

• rudder

• flaps

• landing gear

• tail-fin

The flaps move up or down together, in the same direction at the _________ time.

• different

• consecutive

• offbeat

• same

_________________ usually consists of wheels that the airplane needs to take off and land.

• Gear strobe

• Landing gear

• Landing wheels