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1. Pull your own weight 2. Respect others 3.

Try your hardest


Members: Luke Fickenworth, Samuel Gravois, Tony Tufano

Paper Airplane Project and Design Thinking Process

Distance Airplane

Time Airplane

Understand
Requirements

One airplane should be constructed for longest distance


One airplane should be constructed for longest air time

Materials- All materials will be multiplied by a factor of six for large scale model

One standard sized sheet of copy paper (required)


One standard paper clip (optional) Three inches of tape (optional) A dab of glue (optional) Three staples (optional)

To make our plane fly as far as possible we need very little drag and lots thrust and lift. For time, we need large surface area on the wings to provide resistance to gravity.

Explore
What had to happen

Little drag as possible to limit wind resistance Weight limited to resist gravity Lots of thrust on the throw to get it up in the air and stay up Lift on the wing has to occur so it will stay in the air

Define
Considerations

Large wings for time so plane will stay in the air and resist gravity Small and compact design so it will cut through the air resistance Heavy nose with paper clips and staples so we can throw it farther Bend back of wings down Tape wings together so it will keep it compact

Bend back of wings up


Weight in back or front

Ideate
These are three of our prototypes, their designs and how we made them, and the results of their practice flights

Prototype
Distance Prototype: not very good results

Time prototype: most effective for time

Distance Prototype: best results for distance

Refine
One refinement we made for the distance plane was deciding to turn the end of the wings down instead of up

Solution

Distance Prototype and Final

Time Prototype and Final

Final Test

Our distance airplane came in first place in our class with a distance of 86 feet and 11 inches Our time airplane came in third place in our class with a time of 3.2 seconds
Distance 72 feet 8 inches 75 feet 3 inches 86 feet 11 inches Time 2.7 seconds 3.2 seconds 3.2 seconds

Trial Number 1 2 3

Video of flights

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