Innholdsfortegnelse for November/December 2016 i Click Science and Discovery Magazine for Preschoolers and Young Children

Airplanes fly to and from airports all over the world. These airports are very busy places. There are ticket agents checking tickets. There are air traffic controllers up in the control tower telling pilots when to take off and land. There are baggage handlers putting luggage on planes. There are restaurants to eat at and places to sit and watch the planes take off. What else is happening at the airport? An airplane has many parts. It has very large wings, and engines powerful enough to lift its weight off the ground. Inside there are rows of seats for passengers and a seat up front for the pilot. On the ground, many people help to get the plane ready for takeoff. Inside the cockpit are many instruments the pilots use…

A Alpha B Bravo C Charlie D Delta E Echo F Foxtrot G Golf H Hotel I India J Juliet K Kilo L Lima M Mike N November O Oscar P Papa Q Quebec R Romeo S Sierra T Tango U Uniform V Victor W Whiskey X X-ray Y Yankee Z Zulu Every plane has a call sign. It’s like a name, and no two are exactly the same. Most call signs include the name of an airline or kind of airplane plus numbers or letters. The letters look like the ones you know. But pilots don’t say A, B, C; they say Alpha, Bravo, Charlie. Letters are easy to hear wrong. Words are clearer, so pilots have a word for every letter. Pilots say numbers the way you do,…

Hold one short edge of a strip of paper in front of your mouth, and let the other end hang down. Blow across the curved top. The paper lifts up, just like a wing! Hold the paper to one side of your mouth so it sticks out straight ahead. Blow, and nothing happens. There’s no curve. Now curl one end of the paper by pulling it across the edge of a table. Hold the curved end to one side of your mouth, and blow. Now the air curves. The paper moves toward it and straightens out.…

Can you roll like a log or somersault on the ground? Some planes can do those tricks—and more—in the air. The pilot even flies upside down sometimes. What does that feel like? Well, with your seat belt on TIGHT, it’s like hanging from your lap. Your cheeks push on your eyes. Your sunglasses lean on your eyebrows instead of your nose, and your lungs feel a little crowded. Now that you know what to expect, let’s try a flying move called an Immelmann. It starts with the plane looping up, then rolling so it ends right side up and facing the opposite direction. 1 Sit on the floor in an imaginary airplane. Make sure there’s room all around you, especially behind you and to the right. Look over your left…