Sc10H – paper plane lab – Andrew Tang

During the lab my partner and I folded 3 paper airplanes one different than the other with a slight modification which was folding the wings to make one fly straighter, and another folding the tip in to add more weight on the front thus increasing the thrust. We learned that a regular paper airplane is already the ideal choice, why? Because it is easy to fold, is balanced, and has the best average range out of the three planes we tested. The two other designs put to much weight on the front and on the wings, dragging our plane down while the regular maintained a balanced flight and was the only one that flew straight on most flights except one. The basic plane flew 13 centimeters farther on average than the folded wing design and flew 60 centimeters farther on average than the snubbed nose/folded nose design. All this data proved our hypothesis wrong, which was, if we alter the design of the paper airplane then it will fly farther because the other planes are modified to fly straighter and farther. During our testing we found that our design for our paper airplane was not the best as it had no center of mass and was to light, which is why they became unbalanced and veered off to the side of the hallway where we tested our planes. The planes were measured on a tape measure that was laid out instead of using the measure to pull it all the way to the plane, so it did not measure all the distance maybe being off by a centimeter or two. In conclusion the hypothesis is incorrect and that a regular paper airplane beats anything fancy.

Core Competency

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