Lesson 1: Flight Part 2 Review

The hinged part of the stabilizer on an aircraft that is used to deflect the tail of the plane up and down.

• elevator

• aileron

• fuselage

• rudder

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Small moving section at the rear of the stabilizer that helps to control the yawing motion of the aircraft.

• elevator

• aileron

• rudder

• infer

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A vehicle designed for space flight.

• aerospace engineer

• pilot

• spacecraft

• airfoil

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Up and down motion of the wings of the aircraft.

• yaw

• infer

• pitch

• roll

The part on an airplane that raises and lowers the wings, causing the aircraft to roll.

• camber

• pitch

• aileron

• elevator

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The main body of an aircraft.

• fuselage

• camber

• elevator

• aileron

A person who operates the flying controls of an aircraft.

• spacecraft

• pilot

• airfoil

• aerospace engineer

A side-to-side motion of the nose of the aircraft.

• yaw

• roll

• infer

• pitch

An engineer who designs and builds aircraft and spacecraft.

• airfoil

• aerospace engineer

• pilot

• spacecraft

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A streamlined surface designed in such a way that air flowing around it produces useful motion. The cross-section of an airplane wing is an airfoil.

• airfoil

• spacecraft

• aerospace engineer

• pilot

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