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1. Name the flight controls and parts of an airplane.
(I would appreciate a diagram with labels too.:)
2. How does an pilot control/turn a plane?
3. List some features or adaptations that allow birds to fly.
4. How does a hot air balloon fly?

2006-11-14 14:23:25 · 3 answers · asked by unknown girl 2 in Science & Mathematics Astronomy & Space

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If you need that much information, enter "airplane" in the Yahoo search engine. It will be much faster and more reliable than anything you get here.

2006-11-17 10:07:05 · answer #1 · answered by gone 7 · 0 0

An airplane is controlled by flight surfaces, the rudder, which is on the tail of the plane makes the plane go right and left, or "Yaw" The elevators the little wings under the rudder of the plane make the end of the plane go up and down, "Pitch" the ailerons, which are the big wings, which control the "Roll". And the engines which control thrust. The power to get the plane to move forward. When the plane moves forward, "Thrust", air begins to move over the flight surfaces. You can control the direction of the air by changing the shape of the flight surface. If you are in a car, and the window is open, hold your hand out flat like a wing on an airplane. As the wind blows over your hand, tilt your hand forward and back. The airflow over your hand will act like the "Elevator" of the tail of the plane. If you point your hand down, the air pressures change forcing your hand to go down. The vice versa of that is if you tilt your hand up. Now if you hold your hand in the upward position, it will act like the tail or "Rudder" of the airplane. If you are again in the car and and move your hand slightly right or left the air pressure will change causing your hand to move. The "Ailerons" on the big wing of the airplanes work opposite of one another. If you hold your hands out to your side. Tilt one hand down, and one hand up. If enough wind were to blow over the surfaces of your hands, you would "Roll" . The pilot in an airplane coordinates all three of these flight surfaces to control the plane. I wish I could send you a diagram, but this will have to do. Sorry

2006-11-14 23:23:51 · answer #2 · answered by JAY S 2 · 0 0

birds have hollow bones to make them lighter. balloons fly because hot air is lighter than cool air (hot air rises). The huge burner is essential to heat the air trapped inside the balloon to make it lighter than the air around it so it floats/flies.

2006-11-14 23:00:31 · answer #3 · answered by kholloman124 1 · 0 0

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