The Wright Flyer

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Across
  1. 1. includes an engine or motor
  2. 4. the Wright Flyer is considered the __________ of modern aviation
  3. 6. Light but durable wood.
  4. 7. the rotation of the aircraft around a the lateral axis; nose goes up and down
  5. 10. force that raises an airplane up
  6. 11. the twisting of plane wings to control the roll of the plane.
  7. 12. The brothers that built the Flyer.
  8. 14. stays in the air for a prolonged period of time
  9. 17. axis that runs through the wings of an airplane
  10. 19. the number of seconds that the Wright Flyer stayed in the air for its first flight
  11. 21. Boy siblings.
  12. 22. a pilot is on board controlling the aircraft
  13. 23. The power to influence the direction of an object.
  14. 24. a movable surface on the front of the Wright Flyer to control pitch
  15. 25. a government license to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention.
Down
  1. 2. the direction that the Wright Flyer’s 2 propellers moved
  2. 3. the rotation of an aircraft around the lateral axis; wings move up and down
  3. 5. the element of atomic number 13, a light silvery-gray metal, used for the Wright Flyer engine
  4. 8. the distance, in miles, that the Wright Flyer 3 could without filling up the fuel tank
  5. 9. The device the pilot used to control wing-warping on the Wright Flyer
  6. 13. a movable surface on the back of the Wright Flyer to control yaw
  7. 15. the Wright Flyer was _________-than-air
  8. 16. The moving of an aircraft twists about on a vertical axis; nose goes side to side
  9. 18. the cross-sectional shape of a wing or propeller, used to create lift or thrust.
  10. 20. axis running lengthwise on a plane
  11. 25. what the Wrights did to hide the material that the engine was made of