anyone have any websites on building paper air planes? its for a school project and I have no where to start!?

Question

hey I have a project due in a couple of days. I have to contruct a paper air plane. I can only use one sheet of white paper and scissers. thats it! no glue, tape, etc.

does anyone know where I could find easy info on making one that actually works. the actual project is going to be who's in the class flys the longest in the air. whoever wins gets an automatic 100%.

if you can, please help me out! I have no idea how to make a paper plane! any resources on the web that will help me out?

Answer 1

Go to Google or Yahoo Search. Type in Paper Airplanes or Making Paper Airplanes. You can find plenty of information that way.

Also, if you happen to have Microsoft Publisher, it actually has paper airplane templates as one of the choices.

Answer 2

yes: will taht help???

PAPER AIRPLANE ACTIVITY
Overview
In the paper airplane activity students select and build one of five different paper airplane designs and test them for distance and for time aloft. Part of this activity is designed to explore NASA developed software, FoilSim, with respect to the lift of an airfoil and the surface area of a wing.

Materials
calculator
ruler
graph paper
lightweight unlined paper
scissors
Download Greatest Paper Airplanes Demo (PC or MAC)
Download FoilSim


Procedure
Give a sheet of unlined paper and instructions for construction of a paper airplane


Students should give their plane a name using the aviation alphabet. (Example N 831 FE represents November 831 Foxtrot Echo. Identification numbers and letters must not exceed 7; and the identification must begin with N, which stands for the United States.)


Students should determine the area of the wings of their planes. If students are able, have them unfold their planes and lay out basic geometric shapes to fill the wing area. Then have them calculate the total area from the sum of the areas of the shapes. (See example. Use "back arrow" to return here.)

If students are not able to calculate geometric areas, they could make a duplicate plane, cut off the wings, and lay the wings onto measured grids or pieces of graph paper and count the total squares covered, estimating partial squares.

A variation of this technique that eliminates a duplicate plane and cutting wings is to draw or trace a grid on a blank transparency with a sharpie marker and then hold the clear grid over the wings to count squares covered.


Have students fly their planes in the gym or hallway or other large indoors area (to eliminate wind effects) five times, each time trying for maximum distance. Stress trying to duplicate the same launch angle and speed. Now do another five trials, this time trying for maximum time aloft. Students should record their distances and times and average the three longest distances and the three longest times.


Have students put their data onto a graph for the class, one graph of time aloft vs. wing area and the other of distance vs. wing area.


Discuss the results from the graphs as a class, and then ask for predictions as to what would happen if the wings were made smaller.


Have the students draw a line two centimeters from and parallel to the trailing edges of their wings, and then cut that 2 cm portion off the wings (Shown in red).

The cut off part should be tucked on the inside of the plane when it is refolded in order to keep mass constant. You might ask the class to provide an explanation for doing this.


Repeat steps three through six.


investigate results using FoilSim. should set the ANGLE OF ATTACK to 5 degrees and then vary only the area of the wing and note the effect on the value of LIFT. can compare these results to their own experimental results.

Answer 3

I've got the best one, it's a circular design, that looks like a crown made of nothing other than 1 sheet of 8.5x11" paper


i cant find it on the web... I may have to publish it!

Answer 4

This one should do the trick for you!

Good Luck and have fun.

Answer 5

Get ye to the library - quick.

Loads down there

Answer 6

paperaiplanes.com

Great start...my son had the same project. Also use "Google"...

Answer 7

http://home.inreach.com/jdcard/engl3007/airplane.htm

thats a great sight

Answer 8

bunch of them at that link.

Answer 9

http://home.inreach.com/jdcard/engl3007/airplane.htm

http://www.paperairplanes.co.uk/planes.php

Answer 10

http://www.paperairplanes.co.uk/
http://www.paperairplanes.co.uk/planes.php
http://www.paperplane.org/
http://www.zurqui.com/crinfocus/paper/airplane.html