Balsa Wood Planes

1) Provide a breif description of the activity. Who did you work with? What did you build? What challenges did you overcome to succesfully craft your aircraft?

I worked with Toby and we made a balsa wood plain that was not compleatly succesfull but good enouph to fly. We finished most of our project early so I started to build a second triangular wing just for fun because we had enouph material and time. Through our building period several things went wrong sutch as our stabaliser breading and having to be repaired and then to our rear flap paper being taired off by axsident and then to our pribary wing being compleatly destroyed by Toby.

2) Post a photo of your glider under construction./Post a photo of your finished design.

4) Describe how you tested your aircraft and tuned its flight characteristics.

We tested it in the quad and when it was not flying as wanted we first adjusted the wings by pusing them back or formard as neaded, and when more was neaded we put a wedge under the stabaliser so that the wings would have a more defined slant.

5) Describe how well your aircraft flew in our competition. Did you win any events (furthest distance, longest time aloft)? Were you competative in our best decorated flier competition?

During the event my plane did not fly the farthest or the shortest. But it was more of a plane that would rather do loops than go strait, and also it flew better upside down rather than strait. I may have ben a compedetor in the best decorated flier competition becasue mine had a uniqu wing shape.

6) Pick three steps from the PLTW 12 step design process and describe how your team worked through these during the course of this experience.

      Identify Criteria and Specify Constraints- We found out what the rules were and how we had to do the project and how much time we had to compleat it so that we could plan our building acordingly.
     Select an Approach- Once we knew what we neaded to do we found out in what order we wanted to build firs, second, and third. 
     Test and Evaluate the Design using Specification- Wen we were finished with every thing we took our plain out side and tested the two different wings that we had made.