1. Empennage
   Powerplant
2. Cockpit
   Turbine

Your pilot and co-pilot are located in the cockpit of the plane for the duration of the flight. This is where the flying mechanisms are located and where your captain will communicate with crew and passengers from via overhead speakers.

1. Tricycle undercarriage
   Slats
2. Engine cowling
   Altimeter

Along with the aircraft's flaps, slats are using during takeoff and landing processes to help create extra lift, even at lower speeds. This is because they help produce the extra circulation needed for lift.

1. A pylon
   A picket
2. A wider
   A lock

Pylons serve as adaptors of sorts on both commercial and military aircraft. They help to reduce the amount of drag that extra items, such as military weapons, might cause when attached to the plane.

1. The empennage
   The verticle stabilizer
2. The horizontal stabilizer
   Ailerons

Ailerons are actually parts of the wings and used to help create lift on the wings and move or create airflow. The empennage is the tail section at the back of the plane, and the stabilizers are mounted to it.

1. Without losing cabin pressure
   Without gaining cabin pressure
2. Without gaining airspeed
   Without landing gear

There are four main types of flaps, including the split flap, and they are used to improve the aircraft's lifting ability. When you use a split flap, you can descend quickly without increasing speed/forward momentum.

1. Dorsal fin
   Airfoils
2. Artificial horizon
   Elevator trim

Airfoils appear in many different types of machines, including planes. While they may also show up on propellers, they are cross-sections on an aircraft's wings designed to help create downforce.

1. The empennage
   The tail
2. The fuselage
   The airfoils

The fuselage serves as the main body of the aircraft. It is where the cockpit, passenger seating and cargo storage can be found. Wings can be attached high, middle or low, but always on the fuselage.

1. Tricycle gear
   Pontoons
2. Conventional tail-wheel gear
   Ski-planes

There are lots of different types of plane landing gear, and most of them are based on where you're likely to be landing. If it's a land plane, then you don't need to worry about skis or pontoons, which are for snow or water landings.

1. A truss structure
   A tach structure
2. A holder
   A wingnut

A truss structure is an older structure design and not used as often as it was, as new designs are more aerodynamic. It did inspire many newer designs, however, and is created with a simple tube-welding method.

1. The ailerons
   The altimeter
2. The artificial horizon
   The fuel system

Hydraulics are used to control many systems in the airplane, including the elevator and the slats. On smaller aircraft, it may even be used to control braking systems. The fuel system, altimeter and artificial horizon do not use hydraulics.

1. Change pitch
   Change roll
2. Generate thrust
   Decrease drag

There are specific tools and systems used to complete each of these tasks, but the ailerons (which are located on the wing) help to roll the wings from side to side, which aids in balance control.

1. The tinker tabs
   The pylons
2. The trim tabs
   The powerplant

The powerplant is where you'll find your aircraft's engine or engines as well as the electrical system. Depending on the type of aircraft, you may also find a propeller. You will not find trim tabs in the powerplant but rather attached to the elevator.

1. Avionics
   The ice protection system
2. The fire protection system
   The pressurization and oxygen system

While the pressurization and oxygen systems ensure there is enough oxygen in the cabin to fly at high altitudes without causing harm to passengers, the cabin temperature is maintained by the heating and air conditioning system.

1. Nose
   Tail
2. Wings
   Rudder

Airplanes are most often nose-heavy, and that means it is important to compensate with downward force on the tail to ensure they remain balanced while in the air. This is what the horizontal stabilizer is for.

1. Stabilizer
   Regenerative braking system
2. Fenders
   Step bumpers

An aircraft needs six main parts to fly, navigate and land properly. They are the fuselage, wings, stabilizer, rudder, engine (or more than one engine) and the landing gear. Depending on the aircraft, these parts will be slightly different, but you need all six. The other listed parts are from cars.

1. The attitude indicator
   The turn and bank indicator
2. The airspeed indicator
   The vertical speed indicator

The attitude indicator, or artificial horizon or gyro horizon, is used to indicate the aircraft's orientation to the Earth's horizon. It is mostly used to help when meteorological conditions shift.

1. The engine
   The Aileron
2. The fuel tank
   The landing gear

There are two ailerons on an aircraft and they are located near the rear of the wing where they help to steer or roll the aircraft. They work opposite each other, so when the one is raised up, the other must be lowered down.

1. To help the plane to ascend or descend
   To attach the plane to gear at the gate
2. To serve as a braking system
   To help maintain cruising altitude

Like the name might indicate, elevators on planes are used for going up and down, just like elevators in buildings. The elevator can be found at the tail of the plane and directs the nose to go up or down.

1. Struts
   Hydraulic oil
2. Verticle stabilizer
   Shock absorbers

The aircraft's struts are part of the landing gear and consist of shock-absorbing springs and hydraulic oil and gasses. Together, they help to make the landing as smooth and comfortable as possible.

1. Wheels
   Cabin spaces
2. Cockpits
   Cargo holds

It may seem a little odd, but most airplane wheels are filled with nitrogen rather than the oxygen you'll find in car tires. There's a good reason for this: Nitrogen pressure doesn't change much with differences in temperature or altitude, unlike air pressure.

1. Stabilize the left-right motions of the aircraft
   Reduce drag
2. Fly faster
   Burn less fuel

Winglets can be found on the end of the wings, if the aircraft has them, and they serve many useful purposes. They help the plane to fly more quickly and reduce fuel use, which means longer trips without refueling.

1. Radio communication
   Air traffic control
2. GPS signals
   Position and altitude information

Aircraft have different types of antennas that serve different roles. The long antennas help with radio communication and navigation whereas the shorter antennas are used for high-frequency information and correspondence.

1. The flight deck
   Cabin
2. Cargo hold
   Elevator

The flight deck is another term for the cockpit or the area of the plane from which the pilots control the flight. Overhead announcements often use the phrase "flight deck" to indicate where the information is coming from.

1. The empennage
   The slat
2. The fuselage
   The spoiler

The word "fuselage" is derived from a French word that means "spindle-shaped" and is the part of the airplane that connects all the other disparate sections. Here you'll find the main cabin where passengers fly and carry belongings.

1. Wings
   Spinner
2. Engine carburetor
   Rudder

Yaw occurs when you steer the nose of the aircraft left and right using the rudder, which can be found on the aircraft's tail. This process helps to counteract friction, so the tail follows the follows directly and doesn't slide.

1. The engine
   The slat
2. The rudder
   The spoiler

The slats can be found on the wings of the plane, where they help to guide the curve of the wing (or the camber) so there is more lift available, even when flying speeds are lower.

1. Wheels
   Cargo holds
2. Spinners
   Rudders

Most planes have at least three wheels to aid in the landing process and to make it as smooth and comfortable as possible. Larger planes have more wheels to help support weight and absorb impact.

1. Vertical speed
   Vertical heigh above sea level
2. Pitch altitude
   Heading indication

The altimeter is the pilot's tool for tracking vertical height above the mean sea level. It is used to help find the right pressure setting and works like a basic barometer, correcting for pressure when ascending or descending.

1. The airspeed indicator
   The altimeter
2. The heading indicator
   The tachometer

There usually isn't much difference between indicated airspeed, which is shown on the airspeed indicator in knots and true airspeed, which is corrected for the air pressure and temperature.

1. Laminate windshields
   Plexiglass windshields
2. Split windshield
   Triple-pane windshields

The typical airplane can get very close to the speed of sound, which is why it's important to have thick laminate windshields. When jets go faster than the speed of sound, they create shock waves.

1. Turning indicator
   Heading indicator
2. Attitude indicator
   Vertical speed indicator

While aircraft have changed a lot over the years, there are six main instruments that a pilot will have in their cockpit. These are split into two categories, static (or pitot-static) and gyroscopic, based on the systems to which they are connected.

1. The landing gear
   The engine
2. The empennage
   The propeller

Empennage is actually based on the French word "empenner," which literally translates into "to feather an arrow," and thus the empennage (including the stabilizers, rudder and elevator) works to guide the aircraft, like an arrow's feathers.

1. Spoilers
   Wings
2. Engines
   Biplanes

The aircraft's wings are a type of airfoil that can connect to the aircraft at the top, middle or lower section of the fuselage, depending on what kind of plane it is. There are many designs and styles.

1. Main wings
   Engines
2. Fuselages
   Seats

The bi (the prefix meaning 'two') in "biplane" is in reference to the plane's double set of wings, stacked atop one another. Biplanes harken back to the early days of aviation and planes with one set of wings are called monoplanes.

1. The slat
   The altimeter
2. The tricycle undercarriage
   Nose radome

The slats are located on the wings and act almost as a new, smaller wing. They don't actually produce the lift themselves, but their goal is to help create or generate the required circulation that does.

1. A stroboscopic chamber
   A combustion chamber
2. An intake chamber
   Turbines

High-pressure air goes into the combustion chamber or burner. It then sends the air through the nozzle guide vanes and into the turbines. They help with emissions, fuel efficiency and more.

1. When you need to make an emergency landing
   When you need to fuel mid-flight
2. When you need to start a large jet engine
   When you need to increase altitude

An APU (or auxiliary power unit) is a small engine used to help start larger jet engines, which require more power than a starter battery is capable of generating. The battery can start the APU, however, which then starts the larger engine.

1. Forward retracting wheels
   Spinner
2. Hydraulic motors
   Flaps

The aircraft's flaps will be found on the wing and can be deflected at an angle up to 45 degrees. When they are deployed, they impact how much lift or drag is impacts the aircraft's movements.

1. Spades
   Drums
2. Sets
   Kicks

Spades are usually located on the lower surface of the aileron, ahead of the hinge, by a lever arm. They help to produce an aerodynamic force, which is why they are often found on acrobatic aircrafts

1. With the pedal
   With the steering wheel
2. With the joystick
   With the computer

When the pilot wants to control the aircraft's ailerons, they will move the joystick along the lateral axis, as the ailerons are used to control the aircraft's movement along the X-axis, or its roll.