Parchment Aeronautics
Transcript: History Videos Joe Ayoob and John M. Collins longest throw. Sources Basic Aerodynamics Parchment Aeronautics -Lift: when moving air lowers the pressure below the plane and lifts the plane up. “A Swiss mathematician, Daniel Bernoulli, discovered this effect which you can demonstrate. Tape a piece of paper to a table edge and blow across it at lower pressure that the still air below it. This slight pressure difference causes the paper to rise.” -Gravity: the force that pulls the plane towards the ground -Thrust: Normally comes from a planes engine, however the thrust comes from the person’s throw. -Drag: The friction created by the plane’s “skin”, or the contact it has with the air. -Big winged paper planes are slower compared to smaller winged planes because of the amount of lift they create. - Airplanes can fly only when total lift is large enough to counteract their weight. World Records Work Cited Hanlon, James. Paper Aviation. Rochester Institute of Technology, 2010. Web. 18 May 2015 Paper Airplane HQ. 2014. Web. 18 May 2015 Blackburn, Ken. Paper Plane. Emerald Coast. 2008. Web. 18 May 2015 Hinkle, Melisse. Cheap Flights. 16 November 2014. Web. 18 May 2015 Chipling, Andy. Paper Aircraft Association “Amazing Facts”. Netitall. Web. 18 May 2015 Guinness World Record. 2015.Web. 18 May 2015 or Paper Airplanes... -The exact origins are unknown Popular theories: Leonardo Da Vinci first designed the paper airplane. The Chinese invented the paper airplane 2,000 years ago when they first created paper kites and origami. Paper planes were created by the Montgofier brothers in France while they invented hot air balloons with paper. -1900 Aero magazines showed paper airplanes in magazines to demonstrate aerodynamics principles. -The Wright Brothers used paper airplanes in wind tunnels to model the first plane designs. -1930 Jack Northrop at Lockheed Corporation used paper airplanes to model aircraft designs including the B-2 stealth bomber. -During WWII all materials originally used to make toys (wood, metal, plastic) were being used for weapons and supporting the military. This made the use of paper in toys more prevalent, resulting in increase of paper modeling especially model war planes. -There are records for: Distance (javelin throwing). Time (javelin throwing straight up with subsequent metamorphosis into a sailplane). Aerobatic (looping). Stable flight -Distance record held by Joe Ayoob with a distance of 226 feet and 10 inches.John M. Collins is the creator and designer of the paper airplane. -Time record was 29.2 seconds by Takuo Toda (Japan), in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima, Japan in 2010.