Plane Parts

Question 1

Fuselage

Answer 1

• body of plane
• holds things together
• carries payload/fuel

Question 2

Engine

Answer 2

• (jet or props) generates thrust

Question 3

Wings

Answer 3

• generate lift

Question 4

Landing Gear

Answer 4

• structure that supports an aircraft on the ground and allows it to taxi
• undercarriage

Question 5

Empennage

Answer 5

• the tail
• vertical and horizontal stabilizers and aft section of fuselage

Question 6

Wingspan

Answer 6

• max distance from wingtip to wingtip

Question 7

Rudder

Answer 7

• sits on the back of the vertical stabilizer
  controls direction of the yaw about the aircrafts vertical axis

Question 8

Yaw

Answer 8

• the motion of the longitudinal about the vertical axis
• rudder continued: push right rudder pedal moves rudder control surface into the wind stream to the right; this pushes the tail of the aircraft to the left and the nose to the right, and vise-a-versa

Question 9

Aileron

Answer 9

• hinged control surface attached to the trailing edge of the wing of a fixed-wing aircraft
  used to control the aircraft in roll
• turn plane in air

Question 10

Flaps

Answer 10

• on backs of wings adjacent to fuselage
• changes lift and drag
• when fully extended will generally produce more lift and more drag; so that the plane can descend or climb at a steeper angle or a slower airspeed

Question 11

Elevator

Answer 11

• on back of horizontal stabilizer
• changes pitch
• deflection makes the aircraft move about the pitch axis
• pulling back on the controls defects the elevators upward into the airstream, this pushes the tail down and the nose up and then you’re climbing

Question 12

Pitch Axis

Answer 12

• up and down
• runs from wing tip to wing tip
• passing through planes center of gravity

Question 13

Trim Tabs

Answer 13

• small control surfaces that permit the pilot to balance control forces in steady flight, to relieve pressure on the aircraft’s controls and thus, pilot fatigue
• are primarily used on the elevators but often exist on the ailerons and/or rudder

Question 14

Canard

Answer 14

• an airframe configuration of fixed-wing aircraft in which the tail section is ahead of the main wing, instead of having your vertical and horizontal stabilizers you have a horizontal stabilizer at around the cockpit
• there are lifting and control of these depending on the plane