Kites

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Across
  1. 1. Part of a kite used to direct the kite’s angle of attack
  2. 3. Kites originated in this country
  3. 5. The greater the ___, the lower the pressure
  4. 8. Without a tail, kits will tend to have this motion
  5. 10. An imaginary line that divides a shape into two identical, mirrored halves
  6. 13. Squares and rectangle are types of these geometric shapes
  7. 16. This term is another word for balanced
  8. 19. Most lift is created by holding the kite an an ___ to the wind.
  9. 20. Part of a kite that causes increased drag on the bottom to keep the kite pointed into the wind
  10. 22. Most common kite flying injury
  11. 25. "When object A exerts a force on object B, object B exerts an equal force on object A in the opposite direction" is Newton's ___ Law.
  12. 26. This force depends on wind speed, the surface area of the kite, and its angle of attack
  13. 27. This is caused by a force acting a distance away from a rotation point
  14. 29. Part of a kite that keeps the kite from being blown away
  15. 30. All interior angles of this shape are less than 180 degrees
  16. 31. The net force acting on a kite in flight
Down
  1. 1. This person used a kite to prove that lightning was electrical
  2. 2. A terms that means tied down
  3. 4. Part of a kite that gives the kite structure
  4. 6. A term that means never ending
  5. 7. A type of friction force
  6. 9. Kites will ___ until the center of gravity is directly below the rotation point
  7. 11. A force spread out over an area
  8. 12. What happens when the the angle of attack gets too large and the air over the top becomes turbulent
  9. 14. The motion that occurs when the two sides move back and forth
  10. 15. The direction of the drag acting on a kite is always the same direction as this
  11. 17. The force along the kite's string
  12. 18. This type of kite added together can lift several hundred pounds
  13. 21. This term is another name for a wing
  14. 23. A tethered object with an aerodynamic shape that depends on moving air to create lift
  15. 24. Part of a kite designed to gain lift from the wind
  16. 28. This aspect of a kite can assist roll stabiltiy