Ancient Flight AS100

1. – Lightweight structures used by birds.
3. – Act of passing through the air on wings.
4. - Formulated three famous laws of motion. First name only.
5. – Force that pulls objects toward Earth.
7. - light aircraft without an engine, designed to glide after being towed aloft or launched from a catapult.
8. – Upward force that helps an aircraft fly.
9. – Character from Greek mythology who attempted to fly with wings made of feathers and wax.
12. - Country in which gunpowder & rockets were invented.
15. – A machine capable of flight.
16. – Force that resists movement through the air.
17. – Person who creates or develops something new.

2. - Da Vinci’s drawing of an “aerial screw” looks a lot like which modern aircraft?
6. – The science and practice of flying aircraft.
10. – Force that pushes an aircraft forward.
11. – Skilled inventor and craftsman who created wings for Icarus.
13. – Natural flying animal that inspired early ideas about human flight.
14. - Device intended to slow free fall from an aircraft or another high point.