Civil Air Patrol

Module 1: Introduction to Flight

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 Flight Basics 100

Pertaining to air
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What is aero?
 Flight Basics 200

Any machine that is capable of flying

through the air; included are ultralights,
airplanes, gliders, balloons, helicopters,
hangliders, and parasails
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What is an aircraft?
 Flight Basics 300

A place on either land or water where aircraft

can land and take off for flight
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What is an airport?
 Flight Basics 400

Air in motion
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What is wind?
 Flight Basics 500

A person who operates an aircraft in flight

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What is an aviator?
 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
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What is a tow plane?

 The Power of Rising Air 200

A column of air that moves upward

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What is a thermal?
 The Power of Rising Air 300

The art of staying aloft by exploiting the

energy of the atmosphere
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What is soaring?
 The Power of Rising Air 400

Height above sea level or ground level

expressed in units
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What is altitude?
 The Power of Rising Air 500

Fluid motion between regions of unequal

heating
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What is convection?
 Hot Air Balloons100

An aircraft that uses lighter-than-air gas for its

lift, with no built-in means of horizontal
control
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What is a balloon?
 Hot Air Balloons 200

The heat source for filling the envelope with

hot air
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What is the burner?

 Hot Air Balloons 300

The main body of the balloon, usually made

of nylon, that is filled with lighter-than-air
gas
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What is the envelope?

 Hot Air Balloons 400

A wicker basket, hanging below the

envelope, used to transport passengers and
propane tanks
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What is a gondola?
 Hot Air Balloons 500

One of several vertical panels that make up

the envelope
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What is a gore?
 Forces of Flight 100

The natural force pulling everything to Earth

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What is gravity?
 Forces of Flight 200

The upward force that opposes gravity and

supports the weight of an aircraft
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What is lift?
 Forces of Flight 300

A force which slows the forward movement

of an aircraft in flight
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What is drag?
 Forces of Flight 400

The force that is caused by the forward

movement of an aircraft in flight
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What is thrust?
 Forces of Flight 500

Forces in motion
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What is dynamic?
 Wings 100

A component, such as a wing, that is

specifically designed to produce lift, thrust
or directional stability
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What is an airfoil?
 Wings 200

The downward movement of air behind a

wing in flight
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What is downwash?
 Wings 300

The upward movement of air ahead of the

wing in flight
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What is upwash?
 Wings 400

The curved part of an airfoil from its leading

to trailing edge
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What is camber?
 Wings 500

A line drawn through an airfoil from its

leading to trailing edge
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What is a chord?
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 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
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What is an airplane?
 Common Air 400

A combination of aeronautics and space

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What is aerospace?
 Common Air 600

The science of flight within an atmosphere

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What is aeronautics?
 Common Air 800

A mixture of gases that contains

approximately 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen,
and 1% other gases
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What is air?
 Common Air 1000

Relating to the forces of air in motion

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What is aerodynamics?
 Aviation Potluck 200

The front part of a wing or airfoil

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What is the leading

edge?
 Aviation Potluck 400

The three axes of flight

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What is are vertical,

longitudinal, and
lateral?
 Aviation Potluck 600

The art, science, and technology of flight

within the atmosphere
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What is aviation?
 Aviation Potluck 800

The flow of air which moves opposite the

flight path of an airplane
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What is relative wind?

 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
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What is a vortex?
 Gliders 200

Mass in a given volume

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What is density?
 Gliders 400

The atmosphere’s resistance to vertical

motion
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What is stability?
 Gliders 600

A waving action with strong up and down

motions started as air moves across
mountain ranges
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What is a wave?
 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)
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What is the lapse rate?

 Gliders 1000

A mathematical relationship between the

distance an aircraft will glide forward to the
altitude loss
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What is the glide ratio?

 More Balloon Fun 200

Instrument to provide the height of the

balloon above sea level
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What is the altimeter?

 More Balloon Fun 400

The top of the hot air balloon’s envelope

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What is the crown?

 More Balloon Fun 600

Located in the top of the balloon’s envelope

that allows it to be deflated
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What is a parachute
panel?
 More Balloon Fun 800

An instrument that measures the temperature

within the envelope
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What is the thermistor?

 More Balloon Fun 1000

An instrument to determine the rate of climb

or descent; sometimes referred to as vertical
velocity indicator
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What is the variometer?

 People and More 200

The name of the two French brothers who

created the first successful, manned, hot air
balloon in 1783
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Who is Montgolfier?
 People and More 400

A lightweight, low carbon fuel used in hot air

balloon burners
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What is propane?
 People and More 600

Discovered the Laws of Motion and helped us

to understand flight
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Who was Sir Isaac

Newton?
 People and More 800

To rise or float on the surface of water or

within the atmosphere
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What is buoyancy?
 People and More 1000

His principle states that the faster flow of air

above the wings has a lower pressure
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Who was Daniel

Bernoulli?
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