Paper Airplane Flight

Understanding paper airplane flight starts with learning how to make a paper airplane.

There are varying factors such as type of paper, moisture in the air and in the paper, wind strength (if any) and direction and the way your paper airplane is thrown.

Let's learn how to make a paper airplane and

paper airplane flight with the Pace Jet.

The Pace Jet is a plane that was made for sustainable speed. It's flight is generally straight and constant.

You will discover that this airplane will travel long distances also.

Now let's add a little science to this shall we?

The Science of Flight on Paper Airplanes

For instance hold the plane up nice and close to the nose when you throw it. Repeat the process however this time hold it in the middle and then the tail.

Now why do you think the plane responded the way it did?

Answer - more than likely because the balance of the plane was not true or equal along the length of the plane.

Let's look at the flight of another paper airplane

This time let's throw the plane a few times before we make any changes to it.

Then what we will do is go back to step 13 and undo it (or leave it out).

Again try throwing the plane in different ways, observing the way the airplanes flying.

Amazing isn't it.

Doing these small changes gives you an appreciation for all the things engineers have to take into account when they design and create a new aircraft.

These are just a small number of people that keep airplanes flying day after day.

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