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Friday, August 28, 2020

Paper Plane Flight Simulation

 Hello Bloggers, 

For literacy, we have been doing some flight research and conducting an experiment. For my experiment, I thought that the lower the angles of the flaps, that it would make it stabilize the plane. Here is my research and experiment. See Ya!!!

Paper Plane Experiment


Questions:

  • Does the angle of the flaps affect the way that the plane flies?


Research Summary:

There are four components to flight, and there is lift, drag, weight and thrust. With drag, it is pulling the plane or the non-aerodynamic parts of the plane. If you have a lot of drag, then you will need more power or thrust. 


Thrust is the engines that are making the plane go, turn and fly. Now with the aircraft, the more weight or drag you add on, the more thrust or power. 


Weight is how substantial something is, and in this case, how heavy the plane is. With pressure, you can’t have lots of weight, so you have to use more of the lightweight materials. If it is too heavy, the plane will just drop out of the sky. Gravity also doesn’t help the weight of the aircraft as it is pulling the plane down. 


Lift is kind of like thrust, and it holds the plane up. It makes the plane go up and down while the thrust makes it go forward or left and right


Hypothesis

With the flaps angled down, I think that it will glide way better as a normal plane angled the flaps down it will stabilize more while it will just have to come to an end.


Materials:

  • Paper

  • Measuring Tape

  • Protractor


Procedure:

  1. Follow the video to create one simple paper plane with an a4 piece of paper

  2. Measure 2 cm on the back of the plane and cut some slits in the middle to create some flaps and bend down and measure flaps with the protractor with 2 degrees

  3. Do the same procedure on another wing.

  4. Mark you are going to throw and under shelter or where there is no wind

  5. Layout a measuring tape where we are throwing from and where there is no wind

  6. Now throw from shoulder height and see how far it goes where you are measuring from

  7. Measure from where thrown to the front of the plane.

  8. Retrieve the aircraft and increase the angle of the flaps by 2 degrees.

  9. Repeat steps 6, 7, 8, four times for accurate results

  10. Find the average flight distance from all flights

  11. Also, see what angle flew better from the others



Observations/Results:


Tests

Test 1

Test 2

Test 3

Test 4

Test 5

Average

Flaps Angle

2 Degrees

4 Degrees

6 Degrees

8 Degrees

10 Degrees

6

Distance

3.3m

5.5m

3.2m

9.5m

7.4m

5.78



Discussion:

For the experiment, the independent variables that I chose worked very well and came out with outstanding results. As you can see from the graph above, the 2 and 6 degrees didn’t work as planned while the others. 


With the shorter distances, they were doing big loops as it was very windy and raining a bit so that was holding the plane down. With the rain though, it was making the plane soggier so that was the more added weight which requires more thrust that I didn’t have while throwing. 

With the more angled flaps, they worked way better as even with added weight, it was way more stabilised. It was just flying perfectly straight until more water stacked onto the plane and then it flopped to the floor. 


Conclusion:

In conclusion, the more angled the flaps, they worked well together but the weather didn’t help the plane soar through the air. It just shows that the slightest change in the wings can either work or make it crash.


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