zoom, zoom, like an aeroplane!

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

finishing touches.

Appendices

Appendix A – Use of Plastic Hook in Launch Process

The plastic hook, cut out of ice-cream container was pushed through the base of the paper airplane and stapled in order to stabilise it (B. Mathew, 2009). This is shown in picture below. The hook was then placed in front of the elastic band to launch the paper airplanes.

Appendix B – International Standard Paper Sizes

  •  info about paper system, examples 
Appendix C – Methods of Folding Paper Airplanes (10PaperAirplanes.com, n.d.)

  • list of methods for Arrow, Dart, Stealth
Acknowledgements

An enormous thankyou goes to the following people who have both helped and supported me throughout the course of the Student Research Project. Big thanks go to my father who bought all the necessary equipment and assisted me in building the launcher. Thanks also to my mother, who provided me with tasty food to ease my stress. Special thanks to Miles who gave me the idea for this experiment. Most of all, thanks to my friends: Katherine and Jessica who proof-read my report. Without the efforts of all the people mentioned above, my Student Research Project would not have reached the stage it is at.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

reference list.

The introduction included background research obtained from the following list of references:

10PaperAirplanes.com (n.d). Retrieved June 7, 2010 from http://www.10paperairplanes.com/


B. M. (2009) How to Create a Paper Plane Launcher. In Youtube.Retrieved May 2, 2010 from http://www.youtube.com/user/MattB667

Benson, T. (2010). Welcome to the Beginner's Guide to Aerodynamics. In NASA. Retrieved June 12, 2010 from http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/bga.html

Blackburn, K.D. & Lammers, J.L. (1994). The World Record Paper Airplane Book. Workman.

Garcia, J. (n.d). About Paper Airplanes. In eHow. Retrieved June 10, 2010 from http://www.ehow.com/about_4744243_paper-airplanes.html

Kuhn, M. (2006) International Standard Paper Sizes. Retrieved June 6, 2010 from http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html

Sinclair, J.L. (2003). The Airplane. Capstone Press.

Williams, A. (1981). Aircraft. Gallery Press.

Monday, June 14, 2010

extra graph.

one last tthing that I wanted to add to my report:


Friday, June 11, 2010

to the one person who taught me always to smile :)

this one's for you!

Reults pt. 3

Today I conducted the last part (yay!!) of my experiment on the airplane model, the 'Stealth'


The results are tabulated below:


Anyways, today I plan to finalise by background research & type up my method.
I can sleep in tomorrow, so I might just stay up a little tonight.
Anyways, I'm off to work now!


Thursday, June 10, 2010

Experiment vids:



Results pt. 2

Today I conduct the second part of my experiment on the airplane model the 'Dart'

The results are tabulated below: