Overview
Research and decide on two glider designs – one designed for long-distance, and another designed for a long duration of flight. Your objective is to choose two gliders that will, independently, do very well in each category.
In choosing the designs, keep the following restrictions in mind:
- Each glider’s materials will be restricted to a single, complete sheet of 8.5 x 11-inch standard weight copy paper (20 lb bond / standard A4 format – mass = 4.5 grams).
- The glider will be modified by folding only – no addition of other materials, ripping, gluing, or cutting.
You are not restricted in any way on the sources used to find potential glider designs but here is two https://www.amazingpaperairplanes.com/simpledesign... and https://www.foldnfly.com/#/1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-1
1. Build your glider and test it using the testing instructions worksheet
2.Complete the Paper Airplane Glider Design and Testing Worksheet for Scoring
3.Finally Create a summary of your design testing results, to include:
- the name of each of the team’s chosen glider designs
- a reference (URL) that contains an image of each glider and the instructions for building it
- a hypothesis for each design that incorporates predictions for how each of the four main forces that act on aircraft will affect the motion of the glider in allowing it to achieve its objective (distance or duration)
- a specific description for how thrust should be imparted to each glider design to maximize its desired performance (distance or duration)
- the best average flight time achieved by a distance design test plane
- the best average flight time achieved by a duration design test plane
- a summary of the specific design features and external factors that likely influenced the performance of the test planes for each design