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Student Reading Comprehension Questions

Directions:Use the student reading to help you answer the questions below.

  1. List below 3 characteristics of air.







  2. Draw an airfoil shape and label the following:
    1. leading edge
    2. trailing edge
    3. camber
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  3. In the box below, draw an airfoil shape then show airflow over the airfoil that is, at first, laminar and then turns into turbulent airflow toward the trailing edge.
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  4. List below 3 characteristics of a force.







  5. Use the Wright’s 1908 Signal Corp Flyer below to show how the four forces affect the airplane. (Hint: The front of the airplane is facing right. Use arrows, and label each with the name of the force.)

    Wright Flyer

  6. Why did the Wright Brothers make their own wind tunnel?





  7. What did the Wright Brothers design in order to solve the problem of airplane control? Explain briefly how it worked.






  
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