Civil Air Patrol Module 1 Introduction to Flight

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Civil Air Patrol Module 1: Introduction to Flight JEOPARDY

Civil Air Patrol Module 1: Introduction to Flight JEOPARDY

Flight Basics The Power of Rising Air 100 200 300 400 500 Hot Air

Flight Basics The Power of Rising Air 100 200 300 400 500 Hot Air Forces of Balloons Flight Wings 100 200 300 400 500

Flight Basics 100 Pertaining to air

Flight Basics 100 Pertaining to air

Answer What is aero?

Answer What is aero?

Flight Basics 200 Any machine that is capable of flying through the air; included

Flight Basics 200 Any machine that is capable of flying through the air; included are ultralights, airplanes, gliders, balloons, helicopters, hangliders, and parasails

Answer What is an aircraft?

Answer What is an aircraft?

Flight Basics 300 A place on either land or water where aircraft can land

Flight Basics 300 A place on either land or water where aircraft can land take off for flight

Answer What is an airport?

Answer What is an airport?

Flight Basics 400 Air in motion

Flight Basics 400 Air in motion

Answer What is wind?

Answer What is wind?

Flight Basics 500 A person who operates an aircraft in flight

Flight Basics 500 A person who operates an aircraft in flight

Answer What is an aviator?

Answer What is an aviator?

The Power of Rising Air 100 Usually a single-engined airplane that will pull a

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 What is a tow plane?

Answer What is a tow plane?

The Power of Rising Air 200 A column of air that moves upward

The Power of Rising Air 200 A column of air that moves upward

Answer What is a thermal?

Answer What is a thermal?

The Power of Rising Air 300 The art of staying aloft by exploiting the

The Power of Rising Air 300 The art of staying aloft by exploiting the energy of the atmosphere

Answer What is soaring?

Answer What is soaring?

The Power of Rising Air 400 Height above sea level or ground level expressed

The Power of Rising Air 400 Height above sea level or ground level expressed in units

Answer What is altitude?

Answer What is altitude?

The Power of Rising Air 500 Fluid motion between regions of unequal heating

The Power of Rising Air 500 Fluid motion between regions of unequal heating

Answer What is convection?

Answer What is convection?

Hot Air Balloons 100 An aircraft that uses lighter-than-air gas for its lift, with

Hot Air Balloons 100 An aircraft that uses lighter-than-air gas for its lift, with no built-in means of horizontal control

Answer What is a balloon?

Answer What is a balloon?

Hot Air Balloons 200 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 What is the burner?

Answer What is the burner?

Hot Air Balloons 300 The main body of the balloon, usually made of nylon,

Hot Air Balloons 300 The main body of the balloon, usually made of nylon, that is filled with lighter-than-air gas

Answer What is the envelope?

Answer What is the envelope?

Hot Air Balloons 400 A wicker basket, hanging below the envelope, used to transport

Hot Air Balloons 400 A wicker basket, hanging below the envelope, used to transport passengers and propane tanks

Answer What is a gondola?

Answer What is a gondola?

Hot Air Balloons 500 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 What is a gore?

Answer What is a gore?

Forces of Flight 100 The natural force pulling everything to Earth

Forces of Flight 100 The natural force pulling everything to Earth

Answer What is gravity?

Answer What is gravity?

Forces of Flight 200 The upward force that opposes gravity and supports the weight

Forces of Flight 200 The upward force that opposes gravity and supports the weight of an aircraft

Answer What is lift?

Answer What is lift?

Forces of Flight 300 A force which slows the forward movement of an aircraft

Forces of Flight 300 A force which slows the forward movement of an aircraft in flight

Answer What is drag?

Answer What is drag?

Forces of Flight 400 The force that is caused by the forward movement of

Forces of Flight 400 The force that is caused by the forward movement of an aircraft in flight

Answer What is thrust?

Answer What is thrust?

Forces of Flight 500 Forces in motion

Forces of Flight 500 Forces in motion

Answer What is dynamic?

Answer What is dynamic?

Wings 100 A component, such as a wing, that is specifically designed to produce

Wings 100 A component, such as a wing, that is specifically designed to produce lift, thrust or directional stability

Answer What is an airfoil?

Answer What is an airfoil?

Wings 200 The downward movement of air behind a wing in flight

Wings 200 The downward movement of air behind a wing in flight

Answer What is downwash?

Answer What is downwash?

Wings 300 The upward movement of air ahead of the wing in flight

Wings 300 The upward movement of air ahead of the wing in flight

Answer What is upwash?

Answer What is upwash?

Wings 400 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 What is camber?

Answer What is camber?

Wings 500 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 What is a chord?

Answer What is a chord?

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Common ‘Air’ Aviation Potluck Gliders More Balloon Fun People and more 200 200 200

Common ‘Air’ Aviation Potluck Gliders More Balloon Fun People and more 200 200 200 400 400 400 600 600 600 800 800 800 1000 1000

Common Air 200 An aircraft that is kept aloft by the aerodynamic forces upon

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 What is an airplane?

Answer What is an airplane?

Common Air 400 A combination of aeronautics and space

Common Air 400 A combination of aeronautics and space

Answer What is aerospace?

Answer What is aerospace?

Common Air 600 The science of flight within an atmosphere

Common Air 600 The science of flight within an atmosphere

Answer What is aeronautics?

Answer What is aeronautics?

Common Air 800 A mixture of gases that contains approximately 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen,

Common Air 800 A mixture of gases that contains approximately 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and 1% other gases

Answer What is air?

Answer What is air?

Common Air 1000 Relating to the forces of air in motion

Common Air 1000 Relating to the forces of air in motion

Answer What is aerodynamics?

Answer What is aerodynamics?

Aviation Potluck 200 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?

Aviation Potluck 400 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?

Aviation Potluck 600 The art, science, and technology of flight within the atmosphere

Aviation Potluck 600 The art, science, and technology of flight within the atmosphere

Answer What is aviation?

Answer What is aviation?

Aviation Potluck 800 The flow of air which moves opposite the flight path of

Aviation Potluck 800 The flow of air which moves opposite the flight path of an airplane

Answer What is relative wind?

Answer What is relative wind?

Aviation Potluck 1000 A spinning column of air that is created behind the wingtip

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 What is a vortex?

Answer What is a vortex?

Gliders 200 Mass in a given volume

Gliders 200 Mass in a given volume

Answer What is density?

Answer What is density?

Gliders 400 The atmosphere’s resistance to vertical motion

Gliders 400 The atmosphere’s resistance to vertical motion

Answer What is stability?

Answer What is stability?

Gliders 600 A waving action with strong up and down motions started as air

Gliders 600 A waving action with strong up and down motions started as air moves across mountain ranges

Answer What is a wave?

Answer What is a wave?

Gliders 800 The average rate at which temperature decreases with an increase in altitude

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 What is the lapse rate?

Answer What is the lapse rate?

Gliders 1000 A mathematical relationship between the distance an aircraft will glide forward to

Gliders 1000 A mathematical relationship between the distance an aircraft will glide forward to the altitude loss

Answer What is the glide ratio?

Answer What is the glide ratio?

More Balloon Fun 200 Instrument to provide the height of the balloon above sea

More Balloon Fun 200 Instrument to provide the height of the balloon above sea level

Answer What is the altimeter?

Answer What is the altimeter?

More Balloon Fun 400 The top of the hot air balloon’s envelope

More Balloon Fun 400 The top of the hot air balloon’s envelope

Answer What is the crown?

Answer What is the crown?

More Balloon Fun 600 Located in the top of the balloon’s envelope that allows

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?

More Balloon Fun 800 An instrument that measures the temperature within the envelope

More Balloon Fun 800 An instrument that measures the temperature within the envelope

Answer What is thermistor?

Answer What is thermistor?

More Balloon Fun 1000 An instrument to determine the rate of climb or descent;

More Balloon Fun 1000 An instrument to determine the rate of climb or descent; sometimes referred to as vertical velocity indicator

Answer What is the variometer?

Answer What is the variometer?

People and More 200 The name of the two French brothers who created the

People and More 200 The name of the two French brothers who created the first successful, manned, hot air balloon in 1783

Answer Who is Montgolfier?

Answer Who is Montgolfier?

People and More 400 A lightweight, low carbon fuel used in hot air balloon

People and More 400 A lightweight, low carbon fuel used in hot air balloon burners

Answer What is propane?

Answer What is propane?

People and More 600 Discovered the Laws of Motion and helped us to understand

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?

People and More 800 To rise or float on the surface of water or

People and More 800 To rise or float on the surface of water or within the atmosphere

Answer What is buoyancy?

Answer What is buoyancy?

People and More 1000 His principle states that the faster flow of air above

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?

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