Stephanie, Troy, Salim, Randy, Matthew & Kyla
Monday, February 23, 2009
Experiment #4
Our experiment was really cool! We got to make paper airplanes and Ms. Wang let us throw them across the classroom. However, she did give us steps on how to direct our paper airplanes by moving the flaps on the wings up or down and by turning the rudder on the tail left or right. For example, if both of the flaps are down, then the plane will nose dive. If the flaps are one up and one down, the plane does a barrel roll. If the rudder is turned to the right, the plane will turn right. This new learning was great because we had better control on how to fly our paper planes and where it would land.
Stephanie, Troy, Salim, Randy, Matthew & Kyla
Stephanie, Troy, Salim, Randy, Matthew & Kyla
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The paper airplanes were really fun because they could actually be controlled, unlike other paper airplanes. If we wanted them to go upwards, wewould tilt the flaps both up. If we wanted them to turn we would put the flap on the side we wanted the plane to turn to upwards and the other flap down. There was another technique we learned. The faster we wanted the plane to go, the closer to the nose of the plane we'd put the paper clip. I really learned a lot from this workshop and understand better how airplanes work.
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Just like in a real plane you have to be able to control everything it does to this experiment was a good way to explain what the rudder and the flaps on a plane are used for and why the air and weight ratios are so important when in flight. Keiko
ReplyDeleteMaking the paper airplane was so much fun and it is cool since it is like a real plane fly with the elevators, flaps and stuff but made in paper.
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When this popped up, I learned from the paper airplanes that it is the wing flap designed for air pressure to make it fly. It uses air to make lift, drag, weight and thrust for the airplane. Randy
ReplyDeleteMaking the paper air planes were a great way to see aviation. There were two elevators, and one router. This helped the plane change directions and turn. Victoria and Dan Yang >(@.@)<
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