AVIATION MERIT BADGE

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AVIATIONMERIT BADGE

• CDR Jim Nash, USN (ret.)
• FAA Certified Flight Instructor
• Aircraft Instruments

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Introductions

• Your background
• Aviation Experience
• Commercial Aircraft
• Light Aircraft
• Simulators
• Games
• Etc.

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Agenda

• Define an Aircraft
• What makes it fly
• How an aircraft is controlled
• Different FAA Pilot Certificates
• Aviation Job Opportunities
• Aircraft Instruments
• Navigation

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Define

Aircraft
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Definition of Aircraft

• A weight-carrying structure for navigation of
  the air that is supported either by its own
  buoyancy or by the dynamic action of the air
  against its surfaces. Websters

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Definition of Aircraft

• A device that is used or intended to be used for
  flight in the air. - FAA

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Types of Aircraft

• Lighter-than-air
• Glider
• Airplane
• Rotorcraft
• Powered-lift

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Lighter-than-AirBalloons and Airships
The National Eagle Scout Association and Order of
the Arrow hot air balloons at the 2001 National
Boy Scout Jamboree
Graf Zeppelin compared to a Boeing 747 and the
HMS Titanic
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Gliders or Sailplanes
Sailplane over Tennessee
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Airplanes
Predator, USAF
SR-71, USAF
Dec 17, 1903 120 feet in 12 secs
B-2, USAF
Cessna Sky Hawk
Cessna Caravan Amphibian
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RotorcraftHelicopters and Gyroplanes
Gyrocopter
MH-53J, USAF
Gyroplane
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How Helicopters Fly
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Powered-LiftV-22
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Take 10
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Why it Flies
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Forces on Aircraft
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Bernoullis Principle
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Bernoullis Principle
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Bernoullis Principle
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Bernoullis Principle
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Cruise
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Climb
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Stall
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Need for Thrust
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Types of Engines

• Piston
• Turboprop
• Jet Engines

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Piston Engine
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Turboprop Engine
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Jet Engine
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Take 10