Air planes fly! fly! fly!

Science expo project

How does wing span size affect the flight

pattern, time aloft and distance traveled

Problem

Hypothesis

The 501 familiar will fly farther and have more time aloft

Materials needed • Whitewings Paper Airplane Kit by Dr.Yasuaki Ninomiya.

• Whitewings Paper Plane Design Racer 501 Familiar. • Whitewings Paper Plane Design Racer 501 Familiar enlarged 25%.

• Whitewings Paper Plane Design Racer 503 Elliptic. • Whitewings Paper Plane Design Racer 503 Elliptic enlarged 25%.

• Four sheets of stock paper using the back (plain) side of the non-used paper airplane models in the Whitewings Kit.

• Titanium Scissors • Office Depot hard plastic Ruler

• Hobby Town USA Insta-cure+ cyanoacrylate • Protractor

• Stop Watch on Apple I-Phone • Sears 25 foot Tape Measure

• Pencil and pre-printed blank data charts • Canon MG6220 Photocopier

• An Assistant • A Clip Board

• Blue 1 inch Masking Tape • 1 roll of Scotch Tape • Whitewings Manual

• 4 sheets plain white 8 ½ x 11 size copy paper

The experiment

Results The hypothesis was proven wrong

Because the 503 flew farther and longer

Websiteshttp://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_ideas/

Aero_p009.shtml

http://www.pilotfriend.com/training/flight_training/aero/gliding.htm

http://www.exploratorium.edu/exploring/paper/airplanes.html