AVIATION6th grade Springton Lake

PARTS OF AN AIRPLANE

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PARTS OF AN AIRPLANE

• Fuselage- The main body of an Airplane. • Houses cockpit, passengers, cargo

PARTS OF AN AIRPLANE

• Landing gear- Underneath the airplane • contains wheels, floats, etc. of an aircraft. • lands and moves on ground or water.

PARTS OF THE PLANE

• Propeller- A propeller is a rotating blade on the front of the airplane.

• The engine turns the propeller, which pulls the airplane through the air.

PARTS OF AN AIRPLANE•Wings – Wings are the parts of the airplane that provide lift.

• They also support the entire weight of the aircraft and its contents while in flight.

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• Flaps – Flaps are the movable sections of an airplane’s wings that are closest to the fuselage.

• They move in the same direction on both wings at the same time,

• and, by creating drag and lift, enable the airplane to fly more slowly.

PARTS OF AN AIRPLANE

•Ailerons –movable sections on an outer edge of an airplane ’s wings.

• They move in opposite directions

• (when one goes up, the other goes down).

PARTS OF AN AIRPLANE

•Rudder –movable, vertical section of the tail that controls lateral movement.

• (side-to-side)

•When the rudder moves in one direction,• the aircraft nose moves the same direction.

PARTS OF AN AIRPLANE

• Elevator –movable, horizontal section of the tail that causes the airplane to climb and descend.

•When the elevator moves one direction, • the nose moves in the same direction • (up or down).

PARTS OF AN AIRPLANE

• Vertical Stabilizer- fixed piece on tail

• Keeps aircraft stable

• Keeps nose of plane from moving from

• side to side

PARTS OF AN AIRPLANE

•Horizontal Stabilizer- • Keeps nose of plane from moving up or down

• In front of Elevators

FORCES ON AN AIRPLANE

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FORCES ON AN AIRPLANE

• There are 4 forces on an airplane

• THRUST—a force created by the engine that moves the airplane forward.

•Pulls airplane through the air.

FORCES ON AN AIRPLANE

• There are 4 forces on an airplane

• LIFT—The up ward pushing force.

• It moves the aircraft upward.

FORCES ON AN AIRPLANE

•There are 4 forces on an airplane

•DRAG—created by resistance against all the surfaces of the airplane.

FORCES ON AN AIRPLANE

•There are 4 forces on an airplane

•GRAVITY— a force pulling down on the airplane;

• it’s the same force that keeps you on the earth.

MOVEMENTS OF AN AIRPLANE

• 3 Axis’Movements of an Airplane• Yaw• Pitch• Roll• Combinations of these • three controls enable • an airplane to maneuver.

MOVEMENTS OF AN AIRPLANE

Roll• Roll is known as the rising

or dipping of the airplane's wing. • a Longitudinal axis • stretching from the nose to

the tail of the aircraft.

ROLL

• Ailerons control •Opposite directions •One up-one down• Bank or Roll• Longitudinal Axis• Nose to tail

MOVEMENTS OF AN AIRPLANE

YAW• move towards the left/

right • vertical axis• controlled by the rudder. • Left/Right

MOVEMENTS OF AN AIRPLANE

Pitch• movement of the airplane's

nose

• up or down.

• Vertical axis

• stretching from one wing tip to the other.

• The elevator controls the pitch.

MOVEMENTS OF AN AIRPLANE

• Rudder controls Yaw left/right

• Elevator controls Pitch nose up/down

• Ailerons control Roll

MOVEMENTS OF AN AIRPLANE

AIRPLANE TERMS

• Propulsion•2 Latin words•Pro- before or forwards•Pellere- drive•means to push forward or drive an object forward.

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•Ground Speed-

is the horizontal speed of an aircraft relative to the ground.

A plane going vertical ground speed is zero.

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•Airspeed

• The airspeed relative to the air around it.

•Displays airspeed through air

•Measured in Knots (nautical miles per hour)

AIRPLANE TERMS

•Stall-• is what happens when an airfoil (Wing) can not make enough lift to keep the aircraft in level flight.