Early days of Flight Vocabualry

An upward force on a aircraft against gravity

• Lift

• Balloon

• Drag

• Thrust

Looking over battle fields from the sky

• Dirigible

• Aerial reconnaissance

• Rudder

• None of these answers

A steerable airship

• Balloon

• Rudder

• Dirigible

• Keel

A vertical used hinge used for controlling horizontal movement of an aircraft

• Airplane

• Dirigible

• Keel

• Rudder

A structure that extends along the center of an aircraft from front to back

• Rudder

• Keel

• Bird

• Plane

An engine in which the is burned inside rather than in an external furnance

• Rudder

• engine only

• external combustion engine

• internal combustion engine

People who travel in airships or balloons

• Aeronauts

• Balloonists

• Pilots

• None of these answers

The pull or slowing effect or air on an aircraft

• Lift

• Drag

• Fly

• Land

The forward force of dragging an aircraft

• Thrust

• Drag

• aeronaut

• Rudder

An aircraft with 2 main supporting surfaces

• Parachute

• Airplane

• monoplane

• Biplane