The Thrill of Flight

Topic 2 – The Air Out There

Lesson 1

  1. How does a hot air balloon rise?

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  1. What is weight?

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  1. Hot air has a lot of Kinetic energy. What does this mean?

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  1. Air is like a stack of pancakes. How?

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  1. Air is made of 4 parts (for this activity). What are the parts and their percentages?
  2. ______
  3. ______
  4. ______
  5. ______
  1. What is atmosphere?

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  1. What is aerodynamics?

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  1. What did Daniel Bernoulli discover?

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Lesson 2

  1. Daniel Bernoulli lived when? ______
  1. Bernoulli’s principal is?(write the simple formula)

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  1. Draw a picture of an airfoil to show how the air flow and where the high and low pressure are.

Lesson 3

  1. What is the angle of Attack principal?

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  1. What happens if the angle of attack is correct on a kite?

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  1. Name 5 facts you have learned about air? (the properties of air)
  2. ______
  3. ______
  4. ______
  5. ______
  6. ______
  1. List 4 things that fly.

a. ______b. ______

c. ______d. ______

The Thrill of Flight

Topic 3 – Airplanes

Lesson 1

  1. What are the four forces acting upon a plane?
  2. ______
  3. ______
  4. ______
  5. ______
  1. Lift is:

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  1. Drag is:

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  1. Gravity is:

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  1. Thrust is:

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  1. When an airplane is traveling at a constant speed in level flight, opposing forces are ______in size.
  1. If the lift is greater than the force of gravity on the airplane, the airplane will ______.
  1. The thrust must balance the drag for the speed to be constant. If thrust is less than drag, the airplane would ______.
  1. Wind tunnels are:

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Lesson 2

Explain the location and function of the following parts of an airplane.

  1. Fuselage:

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  1. Engine:

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  1. Propeller:

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  1. Wings:

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  1. Flaps:

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  1. Ailerons:

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  1. Horizontal Stabilizers:

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  1. Vertical Stabilizer:

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  1. Cockpit:

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  1. Landing gear:

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  1. Tail:

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  1. Rudder:

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  1. Elevators:

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  1. How much lift a wing produces depends largely on the ______of the wing.
  1. On the wings are two important parts called ______and ______.
  1. Who was the first person to fly with instruments only? (He didn’t look out the window.)

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Lesson 3

  1. What is pitch?

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  1. What is roll (banking)?

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  1. What is yaw?

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Lesson 4

  1. What part on a plane creates Propulsion?
  1. What are the two main types of airplane engines?
  2. ______
  3. ______
  1. A piston engine burns fuel in what?

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  1. The Piston engine turns up and down piston motion into a ______motion by the crankshaft. This crankshaft turns the wheels in a car and the ______on an airplane
  1. Newton’s Third Law states that:

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  1. Jet engines have a fan-like part called a ______.
  1. Turbines are not turned by an engine like a propeller. They are turned by ______past them.
  1. What do the compressor blades do?

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  1. After the air passes the compressor blades it is mixed with ______and burned in the ______.
  1. The hot air heated in the combustion chamber has a lot of ______now and shoots out of the back of the engine at ______.
  1. There are types of jet engines. They are ______, ______and ______.
  1. The best turbine engine for fuel economy is ______.
  1. The best turbine engine for speed is ______.

The Thrill of Flight

Topic 4 – Helicopters

Lesson 1

  1. What are the rotor blades shaped like? Draw a diagram.
  1. Why is the tail rotor so important?

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  1. Why are landing skids mainly used?

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Lesson 2

  1. What is special about a helicopter’s movement abilities?

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  1. How does a helicopter pilot change the angle of attack to affect flight?

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  1. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. What is the action and reaction of a helicopter?

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  1. What does the pilot and helicopter do to move forward?

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  1. What do the rudder pedals do?

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Lesson 3

  1. What are some tasks that a helicopter can accomplish?

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  1. What are some jobs that could use helicopters?

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  1. How do police use the HAWC 1?

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Topic 4 - Review Questions

The tail rotor produces ______just like an airplanes propeller.

Instead of producing ______, the tail rotor stops the tail from swinging around.

Helicopters are sometimes called choppers or egg-beaters because of the chopping sound of their ______as they whip through the air.

The ______is the force supporting the helicopter in the air.

To ______, or stay still in the air, the rotor disc stays level and this keeps the helicopter steady.

The ______is developed in the direction in which the helicopter is tipped.

Flying a helicopter requires great concentration; a pilot uses ______to control the helicopter, and must watch all ______and look out the windshield.

The Thrill of Flight

Topic 5 – Gliders

Lesson 1

  1. Gliders are piloted aircraft that have ______.
  2. Who built the first glider large enough to carry a person?

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  1. The first glider was put into the air by ______into the wind.
  2. ______are gliders that use a specialized parachute-like canopy for lift.
  3. ______are gliders designed so the operator hangs below the wing.