Final Design:
Building the glider:
2) Your Glider Challenge: Design Phase notes.
1) What's the challenge?
- The challenge of this project is to create a glider out of balsa wood, tissue paper, and glue. The goal of this project is to create a glider that can go the farthest an stay in the air the longest than the other group of students in our class
2) Brainstorm solutions:
Our two main ideas for our plane were:
- large, curved wings
- rounded body (like a boat)
3) Specify:
-Criteria:
- The glider must be able to fly through the air
- can survive multiple test from a 15 foot height
- sturdy and stay together when thrown
- The main constraint of this project was the limited amount of materials used to create the glider
- Only three materials could be used balsa wood, tissue paper, and glue
- There were only 3' of balsa wood we could use and some pieces were diferent in size and shape making them suit specific parts of the glider.
3) Your Glider Challenge: Test Phase notes.
Testing our gilder:
What are your goals for your glider and how did you adjust your design in order to help it better meet them?
- When we tested our gilder it did a bunch of flips so to balance out the weight we made an arrow to stabilize the gilder and make it more aerodynamic
- Although we had to adjust it mulitple times because the wind would break it off when we went outside
4) Your Glider Challenge competition day results. How did your glider perform? What would you change if we competed again?
- Right before we had the gilder challenge the front wings of our gilder broke off. This made it difficult to repair to it original state so when it was repaired the gilder flip upside down and would fly like that until it hit the ground. What I would do differently next time is to reinforce the front wings so the glider would be more prepared and sturdy for hard impacts. Also, I wouldn't make the plane have a boat like shape on the bottom and put the wood used to stablize and build more current and more wings.
Sketch:
