Civil Air Patrol Module 1: Introduction to Flight

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Civil Air Patrol Module 1 Introduction to Flight

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Wings
Forces of Flight
The Power of Rising Air
Hot Air Balloons
Flight Basics
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Flight Basics 100

• Pertaining to air

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• What is aero?

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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?

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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?

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Flight Basics 400

• Air in motion

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• What is wind?

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Flight Basics 500

• A person who operates an aircraft in flight

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• What is an aviator?

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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?

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The Power of Rising Air 200

• A column of air that moves upward

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• What is a thermal?

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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?

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The Power of Rising Air 400

• Height above sea level or ground level expressed
  in units

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• What is altitude?

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The Power of Rising Air 500

• Fluid motion between regions of unequal heating

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• What is convection?

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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?

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Hot Air Balloons 200

• The heat source for filling the envelope with hot
  air

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• What is the burner?

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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?

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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?

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Hot Air Balloons 500

• One of several vertical panels that make up the
  envelope

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• What is a gore?

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Forces of Flight 100

• The natural force pulling everything to Earth

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• What is gravity?

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Forces of Flight 200

• The upward force that opposes gravity and
  supports the weight of an aircraft

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• What is lift?

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Forces of Flight 300

• A force which slows the forward movement of an
  aircraft in flight

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• What is drag?

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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?

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Forces of Flight 500

• Forces in motion

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• What is dynamic?

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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?

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Wings 200

• The downward movement of air behind a wing in
  flight

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• What is downwash?

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

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• What is upwash?

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Wings 400

• The curved part of an airfoil from its leading to
  trailing edge

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• What is camber?

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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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People and more
More Balloon Fun
Aviation Potluck
Gliders
Common Air
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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?

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Common Air 400

• A combination of aeronautics and space

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• What is aerospace?

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Common Air 600

• The science of flight within an atmosphere

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• What is aeronautics?

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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?

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Common Air 1000

• Relating to the forces of air in motion

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• What is aerodynamics?

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Aviation Potluck 200

• The front part of a wing or airfoil

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• What is the leading edge?

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Aviation Potluck 400

• The three axes of flight

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• What is are vertical, longitudinal, and lateral?

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Aviation Potluck 600

• The art, science, and technology of flight within
  the atmosphere

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• What is aviation?

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Aviation Potluck 800

• The flow of air which moves opposite the flight
  path of an airplane

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• What is relative wind?

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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?

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Gliders 200

• Mass in a given volume

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• What is density?

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Gliders 400

• The atmospheres resistance to vertical motion

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• What is stability?

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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?

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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?

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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?

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More Balloon Fun 200

• Instrument to provide the height of the balloon
  above sea level

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• What is the altimeter?

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More Balloon Fun 400

• The top of the hot air balloons envelope

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• What is the crown?

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More Balloon Fun 600

• Located in the top of the balloons envelope that
  allows it to be deflated

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• What is a parachute panel?

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More Balloon Fun 800

• An instrument that measures the temperature
  within the envelope

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• What is the thermistor?

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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?

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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?

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People and More 400

• A lightweight, low carbon fuel used in hot air
  balloon burners

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• What is propane?

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

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• Who was Sir Isaac Newton?

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People and More 800

• To rise or float on the surface of water or
  within the atmosphere

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• What is buoyancy?

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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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