Aviation Terminology
Across
- 1. The counterforce as a result of accelerating the aircraft forward.
- 4. The act of increasing aircraft altitude.
- 5. The force produced by the wings to push the aircraft upwards.
- 7. Building to host and store aircraft not in immediate use.
- 10. Unit of measurement to determine how many multiples of the speed of sound that the aircraft is traveling.
- 11. The cross-section of a wing that produces upward force.
- 13. Unit of measurement that aircraft use to measure speed.
- 14. What happens to an aircraft after exceeding its angle of attack and experiencing a significant decrease in lift.
Down
- 1. The act of decreasing aircraft altitude.
- 2. An instrument used to determine the aircraft's altitude.
- 3. Rotation on the lateral axis.
- 6. The force required to accelerate the aircraft forward.
- 8. Rotation on the vertical axis.
- 9. The counterforce as a result of the wings pushing the aircraft upwards.
- 12. Rotation on the longitudinal axis.