Can You Identify This Airplane Equipment?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.