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The farthest flight by a paper aircraft is 69.14 meters (226 feet 10 inches), achieved by Joe Ayoob and aircraft designer John M. Collins (both USA), at McClellan Air Force Base, in North Highlands, California, USA on 26 February 2012. The plane was constructed from a single sheet of uncut A4 paper.Feb 26, 2012
The farthest flight by a paper aircraft is 69.14 meters (226 feet 10 inches), achieved by Joe Ayoob and aircraft designer John M. Collins (both USA), at McClellan Air Force Base, in North Highlands, California, USA on 26 February 2012. The plane was constructed from a single sheet of uncut A4 paper.
The air around you is one thing that helps a paper airplane fly. … The aerodynamics of the plane will need to have little drag and be light enough to defy gravity. Paper airplanes also use the forces of lift and thrust. When these four forces are used in balance, paper airplanes will fly longer.
Changing Mass
In the same way a rock that is thrown pushes its way through the air as compared to a cotton ball, a paper airplane with more mass flies faster and farther than a paper plane with less mass, up to a point. If the mass is too great, the wings can’t hold the plane in the air.
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The forces that allow a paper plane to fly are the same ones that apply to real airplanes. … All of these forces (thrust, lift, drag and gravity) affect how well a given paper plane’s voyage goes. In this activity you will increase how much drag a paper plane experiences and see if this changes how far the plane flies.
Gravity helps create lift for paper airplanes. … Lift is the force that pushes an aircraft into the air. When paper airplanes are thrown up, gravity pulls them down. This movement causes a difference of air pressure on the airplane wings, which then causes lift.
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Thrust is actually a force! A Force is a push or pull on an object. Scientists name these forces so that they’re easier to deal with. You may have heard of weight: that’s the force of gravity pulling you down!
: the distance from the tip of one wing of a bird or airplane to the tip of the other wing.
Yes, the more air that can get under the wings the longer the airplane will stay airborne increasing the chances it will fly farther.
The larger the paper airplane the more it will weigh, the more it weighs the more lift will be needed to keep it flying. Eventually weight will become greater than lift and the paper airplane will decend to the ground.
Engineers reduce friction drag by making the airplane more streamlined, the wings narrower, or by using new materials that make the surface more smooth, decreasing the ability for the force of drag to effect it. As the roughness and surface area of the airplane decreases the friction drag will decrease.
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How long can I stay up? Gliders can remain flying as long as there is lift available. Using thermals, this is about 8 hours. By using prevailing winds blowing up a slope, a glider can be flown for as long as the wind is blowing.
Gravity is the force pulling the plane down. When the gravity is stronger than the lift, the plane goes down. Helicopters are really airplanes with moving wings called rotors, which replace the fixed wings and propellers used on an airplane.