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    NASM Paper Plane Printout B1p3i5

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    1. The document provides instructions for building a basic paper airplane called "The Dart". 2. It then provides tips for modifying the paper airplane to test its flight performance, such as bending up the rear wings and attaching paper clips to different parts of the plane. 3. The tips are intended to demonstrate how the placement of added weight affects the plane's stability and ability to fly through a hoop by changing its center of gravity relative to its center of lift. Placing weight in the middle provides the most stable flight.

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    NASM Paper Plane Printout B1p3i5

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    1. The document provides instructions for building a basic paper airplane called "The Dart". 2. It then provides tips for modifying the paper airplane to test its flight performance, such as bending up the rear wings and attaching paper clips to different parts of the plane. 3. The tips are intended to demonstrate how the placement of added weight affects the plane's stability and ability to fly through a hoop by changing its center of gravity relative to its center of lift. Placing weight in the middle provides the most stable flight.

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    1. The document provides instructions for building a basic paper airplane called "The Dart". 2. It then provides tips for modifying the paper airplane to test its flight performance, such as bending up the rear wings and attaching paper clips to different parts of the plane. 3. The tips are intended to demonstrate how the placement of added weight affects the plane's stability and ability to fly through a hoop by changing its center of gravity relative to its center of lift. Placing weight in the middle provides the most stable flight.

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    NASM Paper Plane Printout B1p3i5

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    alberto
    1. The document provides instructions for building a basic paper airplane called "The Dart". 2. It then provides tips for modifying the paper airplane to test its flight performance, such as bending up the rear wings and attaching paper clips to different parts of the plane. 3. The tips are intended to demonstrate how the placement of added weight affects the plane's stability and ability to fly through a hoop by changing its center of gravity relative to its center of lift. Placing weight in the middle provides the most stable flight.

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    HOW TO BUILD YOUR

    PAPER AIRPLANE!

    THE “DART”

    Make sure the location of the star on your paper plane print out matches the location of the star in the directions below!

    1. Pattern side down, fold 2. Fold both top corners in to 3. Fold both sides in again so
    paper in half, then unfold. center crease. the corners meet at the
    middle crease.

    4. Fold plane in half. 5. Fold down both wings so the 6. Unfold wings so they lie
    two top corners meet the horizontal when the plane
    bottom edge of the plane. is in flight.

    YOU’RE READY
    TO FLY!
    Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

    PREPARE FOR
    TAKE OFF! Think your plane has the stuff to go pro?
    Check out these tips, tricks, and modifications
    and put your aircraft to the test!

    1. Gently bend up the rear corners of the wings (as shown in diagram).
    This balances the plane in flight.
    2. Bend a wire coat hanger into a hoop and hang it.
    3. Attach three paper clips to the back of the vertical surface (as shown in diagram).
    4. Try to fly the plane through the hoop.
    5. Now move the paper clips to the front of the plane and try again.

    What’s the difference?

    WHAT’S GOING ON?


    First, you’ll need to know what these three things mean:
    Stability: An airplane’s tendency to right itself after it is disturbed.
    Center of Lift: The point where all the lifting force is concentrated.
    Center of Gravity: The “balancing point” of an airplane. At this point there is just as much
    mass in front of it as there is behind it. If you put your finger here, the plane will balance on it.

    When you put paperclips on When you moved the So where’s the best place
    the back of the airplane, the paperclips to the front of the to put the weight? If the
    center of gravity moved plane, the center of gravity center of gravity is directly
    farther back. This extra moved in front of the center under the center of lift, then
    weight pulls the back of the of lift. Now the weight pulls they balance each other.
    plane down, while the center the front of the plane down. So for stable flight, the best
    of lift pulls the front up. The The airplane is still unstable! place to put the weight is in
    airplane is unstable! the middle of the airplane!

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