Ancient Flight AS100

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Across
  1. 1. – Lightweight structures used by birds.
  2. 3. – Act of passing through the air on wings.
  3. 4. - Formulated three famous laws of motion. First name only.
  4. 5. – Force that pulls objects toward Earth.
  5. 7. - light aircraft without an engine, designed to glide after being towed aloft or launched from a catapult.
  6. 8. – Upward force that helps an aircraft fly.
  7. 9. – Character from Greek mythology who attempted to fly with wings made of feathers and wax.
  8. 12. - Country in which gunpowder & rockets were invented.
  9. 15. – A machine capable of flight.
  10. 16. – Force that resists movement through the air.
  11. 17. – Person who creates or develops something new.
Down
  1. 2. - Da Vinci’s drawing of an “aerial screw” looks a lot like which modern aircraft?
  2. 6. – The science and practice of flying aircraft.
  3. 10. – Force that pushes an aircraft forward.
  4. 11. – Skilled inventor and craftsman who created wings for Icarus.
  5. 13. – Natural flying animal that inspired early ideas about human flight.
  6. 14. - Device intended to slow free fall from an aircraft or another high point.