when I was doing my work i came across catapult planes. I had a try at doing it and I loved it.we have to learn all about thrust. we did aeroplanes because when they fly they use the thrust to get to places like cars they need some kind of force to get moving again. We had to have these:
when i was making my paper plane I made some designs on it. I put the controller and just a little bit of scribble scratch on it what was cool. put a hole through the aeroplane and put a rubber band through it. then i used a pencil to shoot the plane from different centimetres. after a while my plane broke and my rubber band snapped in half.- Paper - A4 or pages from a magazine/newspaper
- Rubber band or piece of elastic (hair tie)
- A pencil / iceblock stick / any stick
- Ruler and or tape measure.
Most enjoyed was probably shooting the planes in the air because it had more stanima. If you aim it in the middle not upwards because it would just go down. For advice always do it in the middle so it will ride to the end because it has more chance of catching the wind then going up some times. It was easy to make the aeroplane with the rubber bands and stuff.thank you for reading my post and we were learning about thrust.
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Hi Raffaele,
ReplyDeleteI love the photo's you posted, and I enjoyed the reading about the advice you have given to others who may be making a catapult plane.
I'm so pleased that you loved making the plane, you must have learnt lots about thrust.
Well done.
You have had a lot of fun Raff! Thanks for sharing the great photos! Your graph looks interesting it went up and then down! Was it hard to fly when the rubber band was stretched right out? Great work on the catapult planes!
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