How is an aircraft controlled explain with the aid of diagrams?

Answer 1

Airplanes use a system of flaps to control their movements. Flaps are usually the back edges of a aircrafts wings that can angle up and down. It's like when you put your hand out a cars window while it is moving. You can control your hand by just angling your fingers differently. If you point them up the wind will push your hand up and back, and if you point them down the wind pushes your hand down. Planes do this too, they can point their flaps up or down and the wind will lift itup or force it downward. To turn they use the same thing, but instead of pointing the flaps on both wings up ordown they only use one wing. When you use just one side that side will lift up or drop down which tips the plane on a angle and then they can use their flaps to turn the plane just like they do for up and down. Planes also use a verticle flap on their tail which works the same way but it helps them with side to side movement and not up and down. You can do this with a paper airplane to get the idea a bit better. Simply make a paper airplane then bend the backs of the wings down or up and then throw it. The plane will then go up or down depending on which way you bent the wings. If you bend just one the plane will spin. P.S. sorry i couldn't use diagrams I couldn't find any that where apropperiate hopefully someone else can.