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Lighter-than-air aircraft
Aviation Technology · Grade 10 · about 40 minutes
How balloons and airships float, how they differ, and the jobs each can do.
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- 7 sections of explanation, worked examples and diagrams
- 1 practice task with hints and worked answers
- A quiz that marks itself as you go
- Your progress kept across every subject you take
Other lessons in this sub-strand
- Introduction to aviation technology
- Aviation as a field of study in Kenya
- The first human flight
- George Cayley and the glider
- The Wright brothers and powered flight
- Helicopters, jets and modern aviation
- Lighter-than-air aircraft
- Heavier-than-air aircraft
- Functions of different types of aircraft
- Classifying aircraft and why it matters