Evaluate yourself with an online quiz on Wings and Tails. Here are some additional questions for you to research on your own: 1. When you use the wings and tails described in this lesson, there are certain ways they must be moved in combination in order to control an aircraft. What would you do if you were trying to make a plane climb? To make the plane turn right? To do both at once? 2. How do jet wings differ from those of early tri-planes? 3. How did rudders evolve? 4. Why does the B-2 bomber not have a rudder? 5. How does the shape of the B-2 and other rudderless planes compensate for the lack of the rudder? .

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