Natalie

Kates
Foundation OF Engineering
September 1, 2020
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Challenge 1
⦿ Students will learn about engineering and
problem solving when tasked to design a paper
airplane to carry as many paper clips as
possible.
⦿ You need to include a photo of each of your
airplane designs.

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Design Requirements
⦿Criteria - what the design or product
must do and will be graded/judged on
⦿Constraints - what can be used and
what cannot be used
⦿ Variables - one thing can be changed
at a time in an experiment to see what
happens; does it get better or worse?
Then another variable can be changed
to see that does.
Test Airplanes
⦿Either in a hallway or open area, test your
created airplane.
⦿Did it fly straight?
⦿Did it stall?
⦿Did it dive?
⦿How far did it travel and why?

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Make Modifications
⦿Modify your airplane based on the
problems seen in your initial test flight
⦿Test!!
⦿Once again, ask yourself why your plane
flew the way it did.

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 Plane Dimensions
  Plane# Plane#1 Plane#2 Plane#3 Plane#4
Example
Height 2.9 in. 3.9 in

Length 6.9 in. 3.10in

Wing Span 4.11 in. 5.6 in

*Weight 5g

Explain the Weight differences here

Plane# Example flight test data
Time of Flight Distance
Traveled
Test#1 1.4 sec 14ft 7.9 in.

Test#2 1.9 sec 11ft 2.5 in.

Test#3 2.3 sec 28ft 5.6 in.

Test#4 2.9 sec 29ft 2.5 in.

CALCULATE THE Average time of flight: 2.1 sec

Average distance traveled: 24ft 3.8 in.

EXPLAIN THE AIRPLANE STYLE

Plane#1 flight test data
Time of Flight Distance Traveled

Test#1 2.4 sec 24ft 8 in.

Test#2 2.5 sec 16ft 11 in.

Test#3 2.4 sec 19ft 5 in.

Test#4 2 sec 15ft 4 in.

Test#5 2sec 18ft 8 in.

Average time of flight: 2.3 sec

Average distance traveled: 18ft 9 in.

Plane#1 flight test data
Time of Flight Distance
Traveled
Test#1 3.5 seconds 3ft 5.7in.

Test#2 2 seconds 2ft 6.6in.

Test#3 2.3 seconds 3ft 6.8in.

Test#4 5 seconds 7ft 12.5in.

Average time of flight:

Average distance traveled:

AIRPLANE DESIGN STLYE

Plane#2 flight test data
Time of Flight Distance
Traveled
Test#1 4 seconds 2ft 14.5in.

Test#2 3.2 seconds 2ft 13.2in.

Test#3 5 seconds 5ft 12.5in.

Test#4 1 second 2ft 12.6in.

Average time of flight:

Average distance traveled:

AIRPLANE DESIGN STLYE

Plane#3 flight test data
Time of Flight Distance
Traveled
Test#1 4 seconds 4ft 25.6in.

Test#2 0.5 seconds 21ft 20.1in.

Test#3 2 seconds 2ft 22.5in.

Test#4 5 seconds 4ft 23.1in.

Average time of flight:

Average distance traveled:

AIRPLANE DESIGN STLYE

Plane#4 flight test data
Time of Flight Distance
Traveled
Test#1 1 seconds 1ft 17.5in.

Test#2 2.3 seconds 3ft 16.3in.

Test#3 1 seconds 1ft 18in.

Test#4 2 seconds 3ft 16.1in.

Average time of flight:

Average distance traveled:

AIRPLANE DESIGN STLYE

Hints
⦿Common problems
⚫Plane will dip or stall
⚫Plane does not fly straight
⚫Plane does not fly far

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Plane Correction Tips
⦿If plane is nose diving, consider adding
weight to the back of the plane or taking
off weight from the front of the plane.
⦿If plane is gliding upwards, add weight to
the front of the plane (this will push the
plane’s center of mass further back,
closer to the center of pressure).
⦿If plane doesn’t fly as far as you want it
to, try taking off weight or cutting down
on air resistance.

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Evaluation – On this slide
⦿Write an evaluations explaining what
factors were most influential the best
plane’s design and flight. Why did a few
planes travel incredibly far? Why did the
planes that dove or stalled do so? This
report should be at least one half of a
page.

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Challenge 2
⦿Modify your plane so that is spirals.
⦿Repeat all other tasks.

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Hints
⦿Modify fins and/or wings
⦿Try not to unbalance the plane when
doing so.

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