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Thursday, March 4, 2010

designing the plane launcher.

I found this video on youtube by user: MattB667 , uploaded on November 17, 2009. I wanted to adopt the 'plastic hook & rubber band' part of the method, and will be adding to the design myself.

'cut a hook out of plastic as shown in the next picture.'

'push the point of the hook throught the base of the plane so it pokes out underneath it,
and the rest of the hook resides in the middle of the plane.'


My plane launcher will have a base, probably made out of a plank of wood. Then, it will have two nails, nailed down a reasonable distance apart. And attached to each nail will be one end of the elastic band (or any elastic material) that the airplane will be hooked onto. The elastic band will then be pulled back and effectively 'launch' the plane.

So, it will hopefully look something like this:

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