Airplane

High school (ages 12+)
Transportation

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/airplane

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the scientific name?Aircraft (general term for any machine capable of flight)
2. What is the first sustained flight?December 17, 1903, by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
3. What is an airplane and how does it fly?An airplane is a machine that can fly by using lift, weight, thrust, and drag. The wings create lift by having lower pressure on top and higher pressure below, and engines give thrust to move forward.
4. Who invented the first airplane?Orville and Wilbur Wright invented the first airplane on December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

Airfoil: The cross-sectional shape of a wing or blade designed to produce lift when moving through a fluid.
Bernoulli's Principle: States that an increase in the speed of a fluid occurs simultaneously with a decrease in pressure or a decrease in the fluid's potential energy.
Turbofan Engine: A type of jet engine that uses a large fan to bypass much of the air around the core, improving fuel efficiency and reducing noise.