theory of flight week 1
Across
- 2. stabiliser. Provides directional stability.
- 3. The layer between the troposphere and stratosphere.
- 5. drag. Drag resulting from generating lift.
- 8. The atmosphere layer between 36,000 ft to 100,000 ft.
- 11. drag. Drag due to shape.
- 13. Makes up 21% of the atmosphere.
- 15. When the boundary layer ceases to be laminar.
- 20. The force generated by a propeller.
- 21. The tail section of an aircraft.
- 22. drag. Drag due to shape and skin friction.
- 24. The force generated by gravity.
- 26. A streamlined enclosure that usually contains the engines.
- 27. resistance to movement through the air.
- 28. vortices. Caused by span wise flow off an aerofoil.
Down
- 1. Smooth airflow.
- 4. The body of the aircraft.
- 5. Drag generated where the wing meets the fuselage.
- 6. A line from the leading to trailing edge.
- 7. A tube that speeds air up.
- 9. The layer of the atmosphere at the earths surface.
- 10. altitude. The ISA altitude based on the actual pressure
- 12. Equals weight in level flight.
- 14. That which generates lift.
- 16. Angle of ____ between chord and longitudinal axis.
- 17. makes up 78% of the atmosphere.
- 18. The curve of an aerofoil.
- 19. altitude. The altitude measured in terms of density.
- 23. of pressure. The point on the chord line through which the total lift is said to act.
- 25. edge. The front edge of a wing.