Civil Air Patrol Module 1: Introduction to Flight JEOPARDY
Flight Basics The Power of Rising Air Hot Air Balloons Forces of Flight Wings 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500
Flight Basics 100 Pertaining to air Answer
Answer What is aero? Back to the Board
Flight Basics 200 Any machine that is capable of flying through the air; included are ultralights, airplanes, gliders, balloons, helicopters, hangliders, and parasails Answer
Answer What is an aircraft? Back to the Board
Flight Basics 300 A place on either land or water where aircraft can land and take off for flight Answer
Answer What is an airport? Back to the Board
Flight Basics 400 Air in motion Answer
Answer What is wind? Back to the Board
A person who operates an aircraft in flight Flight Basics 500 A person who operates an aircraft in flight Answer
Answer What is an aviator? Back to the Board
Answer The Power of Rising Air 100 Usually a single-engined airplane that will pull a glider from the ground to an altitude where it can be released Answer
Answer What is a tow plane? Back to the Board
A column of air that moves upward The Power of Rising Air 200 A column of air that moves upward Answer
Answer What is a thermal? Back to the Board
The art of staying aloft by exploiting the energy of the atmosphere The Power of Rising Air 300 The art of staying aloft by exploiting the energy of the atmosphere Answer
Answer What is soaring? Back to the Board
Height above sea level or ground level expressed in units The Power of Rising Air 400 Height above sea level or ground level expressed in units Answer
Answer What is altitude? Back to the Board
Fluid motion between regions of unequal heating The Power of Rising Air 500 Fluid motion between regions of unequal heating Answer
Answer What is convection? Back to the Board
Answer Hot Air Balloons100 An aircraft that uses lighter-than-air gas for its lift, with no built-in means of horizontal control Answer
Answer What is a balloon? Back to the Board
The heat source for filling the envelope with hot air Hot Air Balloons 200 The heat source for filling the envelope with hot air Answer
Answer What is the burner? Back to the Board
Answer Hot Air Balloons 300 The main body of the balloon, usually made of nylon, that is filled with lighter-than-air gas Answer
Answer What is the envelope? Back to the Board
Answer Hot Air Balloons 400 A wicker basket, hanging below the envelope, used to transport passengers and propane tanks Answer
Answer What is a gondola? Back to the Board
One of several vertical panels that make up the envelope Hot Air Balloons 500 One of several vertical panels that make up the envelope Answer
Answer What is a gore? Back to the Board
The natural force pulling everything to Earth Forces of Flight 100 The natural force pulling everything to Earth Answer
Answer What is gravity? Back to the Board
Answer Forces of Flight 200 The upward force that opposes gravity and supports the weight of an aircraft Answer
Answer What is lift? Back to the Board
A force which slows the forward movement of an aircraft in flight Forces of Flight 300 A force which slows the forward movement of an aircraft in flight Answer
Answer What is drag? Back to the Board
Answer Forces of Flight 400 The force that is caused by the forward movement of an aircraft in flight Answer
Answer What is thrust? Back to the Board
Forces of Flight 500 Forces in motion Answer
Answer What is dynamic? Back to the Board
Wings 100 A component, such as a wing, that is specifically designed to produce lift, thrust or directional stability Answer
Answer What is an airfoil? Back to the Board
The downward movement of air behind a wing in flight Wings 200 The downward movement of air behind a wing in flight Answer
Answer What is downwash? Back to the Board
The upward movement of air ahead of the wing in flight Answer Wings 300 The upward movement of air ahead of the wing in flight Answer
Answer What is upwash? Back to the Board
The curved part of an airfoil from its leading to trailing edge Wings 400 The curved part of an airfoil from its leading to trailing edge Answer
Answer What is camber? Back to the Board
A line drawn through an airfoil from its leading to trailing edge Wings 500 A line drawn through an airfoil from its leading to trailing edge Answer
Answer What is a chord? Back to the Board
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Common ‘Air’ Aviation Potluck Gliders More Balloon Fun People and more 200 200 200 200 200 400 400 400 400 400 600 600 600 600 600 800 800 800 800 800 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000
Common Air 200 An aircraft that is kept aloft by the aerodynamic forces upon its wings and is thrust forward by a means of propulsion Answer
Answer What is an airplane? Back to the Board
A combination of aeronautics and space Common Air 400 A combination of aeronautics and space Answer
Answer What is aerospace? Back to the Board
The science of flight within an atmosphere Common Air 600 The science of flight within an atmosphere Answer
Answer What is aeronautics? Back to the Board
Common Air 800 A mixture of gases that contains approximately 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and 1% other gases Answer
Answer What is air? Back to the Board
Relating to the forces of air in motion Common Air 1000 Relating to the forces of air in motion Answer
Answer What is aerodynamics? Back to the Board
The front part of a wing or airfoil Aviation Potluck 200 The front part of a wing or airfoil Answer
What is the leading edge? Answer What is the leading edge? Back to the Board
The three axes of flight Aviation Potluck 400 The three axes of flight Answer
What is are vertical, longitudinal, and lateral? Answer What is are vertical, longitudinal, and lateral? Back to the Board
The art, science, and technology of flight within the atmosphere Aviation Potluck 600 The art, science, and technology of flight within the atmosphere Answer
Answer What is aviation? Back to the Board
The flow of air which moves opposite the flight path of an airplane Aviation Potluck 800 The flow of air which moves opposite the flight path of an airplane Answer
Answer What is relative wind? Back to the Board
Answer Aviation Potluck 1000 A spinning column of air that is created behind the wingtip as a result of air moving from an area of high pressure on the bottom to an area of low pressure on top Answer
Answer What is a vortex? Back to the Board
Gliders 200 Mass in a given volume Answer
Answer What is density? Back to the Board
The atmosphere’s resistance to vertical motion Gliders 400 The atmosphere’s resistance to vertical motion Answer
Answer What is stability? Back to the Board
Gliders 600 A waving action with strong up and down motions started as air moves across mountain ranges Answer
Answer What is a wave? Back to the Board
Gliders 800 The average rate at which temperature decreases with an increase in altitude (average is 3 ½ degrees per 1000 feet increase in altitude) Answer
Answer What is the lapse rate? Back to the Board
Gliders 1000 A mathematical relationship between the distance an aircraft will glide forward to the altitude loss Answer
Answer What is the glide ratio? Back to the Board
Instrument to provide the height of the balloon above sea level More Balloon Fun 200 Instrument to provide the height of the balloon above sea level Answer
Answer What is the altimeter? Back to the Board
The top of the hot air balloon’s envelope More Balloon Fun 400 The top of the hot air balloon’s envelope Answer
Answer What is the crown? Back to the Board
Answer More Balloon Fun 600 Located in the top of the balloon’s envelope that allows it to be deflated Answer
What is a parachute panel? Answer What is a parachute panel? Back to the Board
An instrument that measures the temperature within the envelope More Balloon Fun 800 An instrument that measures the temperature within the envelope Answer
Answer What is the thermistor? Back to the Board
Answer More Balloon Fun 1000 An instrument to determine the rate of climb or descent; sometimes referred to as vertical velocity indicator Answer
Answer What is the variometer? Back to the Board
People and More 200 The name of the two French brothers who created the first successful, manned, hot air balloon in 1783 Answer
Answer Who is Montgolfier? Back to the Board
A lightweight, low carbon fuel used in hot air balloon burners People and More 400 A lightweight, low carbon fuel used in hot air balloon burners Answer
Answer What is propane? Back to the Board
Discovered the Laws of Motion and helped us to understand flight Answer People and More 600 Discovered the Laws of Motion and helped us to understand flight Answer
Who was Sir Isaac Newton? Answer Who was Sir Isaac Newton? Back to the Board
To rise or float on the surface of water or within the atmosphere People and More 800 To rise or float on the surface of water or within the atmosphere Answer
Answer What is buoyancy? Back to the Board
People and More 1000 His principle states that the faster flow of air above the wings has a lower pressure Answer
Who was Daniel Bernoulli? Answer Who was Daniel Bernoulli? Back to the Board
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