{"id":181616,"date":"2023-02-15T16:32:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T21:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/stem-content\/the-axes-of-flight\/"},"modified":"2023-06-30T11:20:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T15:20:24","slug":"the-axes-of-flight","status":"publish","type":"stem-content","link":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/stem-content\/the-axes-of-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"The Axes of Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cut out and assemble a paper airplane, and then learn the three ways airplanes can move. Airplanes can move in three directions: left to right, forward and backward, and up and down. Use pencils connected to your cut-out airplane to see how it moves in the three directions. Then, read about airplane motions and which airplane parts help the airplane to move.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/the_axes_of_flight.pdf?emrc=666e4ea0babaa\">The Axes of Flight<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This activity is adapted from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/aeroresearch\/resources\/mib\/axes-control-k-4\">“Axes\/Control Surfaces (K-4)”<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/aeroresearch\/resources\/mib\/axes-control-5-8\">“Axes\/Control Surfaces (5-8)”<\/a> educator guides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cut out and assemble a paper airplane to learn the three ways airplanes can move. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":66654,"template":"","categories":[],"stem-terms":[8043,8133,8044,8051,8050,8057,8083,8049,8046,8045],"news-tags":[],"internal-terms":[],"coauthors":[3854],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"WebPage","headline":"The Axes of Flight","url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/stem-content\/the-axes-of-flight\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/stem-content\/the-axes-of-flight\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/edu_srch_the_axis_of_flight.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/edu_srch_the_axis_of_flight.jpg"},"articleSection":"General","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NASA"}],"creator":["NASA"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"NASA","logo":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/themes\/nasa\/assets\/images\/nasa-logo.svg"},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2023-02-15T21:32:06Z","datePublished":"2023-02-15T21:32:06Z","dateModified":"2023-06-30T15:20:24Z"},"rendered":"<meta name=\"parsely-title\" content=\"The Axes of Flight\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-link\" content=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/stem-content\/the-axes-of-flight\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-type\" content=\"index\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-image-url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/edu_srch_the_axis_of_flight.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-pub-date\" content=\"2023-02-15T21:32:06Z\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-section\" content=\"General\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-author\" content=\"NASA\" \/>","tracker_url":"https:\/\/cdn.parsely.com\/keys\/nasa.gov\/p.js"},"read_time":1,"featured_image":{"id":66654,"file":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/edu_srch_the_axis_of_flight.jpg","title":"edu_srch_the_axis_of_flight","alt":"A paper model of an airplane attached to pencils that run across the wings and along the fuselage","caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stem-content\/181616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stem-content"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/stem-content"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stem-content\/181616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390420,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stem-content\/181616\/revisions\/390420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181616"},{"taxonomy":"stem-terms","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stem-terms?post=181616"},{"taxonomy":"news-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-tags?post=181616"},{"taxonomy":"internal-terms","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/internal-terms?post=181616"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=181616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}