Airplanes

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

Jet engines allow airplanes to fly faster and at higher altitudes than propeller airplanes.

• lower, and slower

• faster and higher

• faster and lower

• lower and faster

The left wing position light on an airplane is __________; the right wing position light is _________.

• red, blue

• blue, red

• red, green

• red, white

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

• Gear strobe

• Landing gear

• Landing wheels

The “artificial horizon” instrument in the cockpit gives the pilot information about both pitch and _________.

• pitch

• yaw

• bank

• roll

Pulling the yoke back makes the nose of the airplane of go _____________.

• left

• down

• up

• right

If an airplane has the horizontal stabilizer located near the top of the vertical stabilizer, it is sometimes called a “____________” airplane.

• T-tail

• fin

• aileron

• flaps

What does the stabilizers do for the plane?

• make it do loops

• make it go higher

• make it fly straight

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The part of the plane that controls the speed is....

• the wings.

• the throttle

• the fuselage