Name: Obenieta, Spencer Lloyd T.

Date Performed: 10/11/19

Course & Section: BS-AET/1B Date Submitted: 10/14/19

Scaling and Paper Airplanes

Abstract:

Paper airplanes are the one who make our Childhood more fun and enjoyable. Real Aircrafts are so
amazing to watch while it’s flying around the Skies so that we used to make Paper airplanes as a model of a
Real Aircrafts. Paper airplanes are so easy to do. All you have to do is to know the steps of its folding. But some
of us want to be different in terms of Paper airplanes design. Knowing the different kind of folds are so fun. The
country who originates this paper folding is the country of Japan and they called it “Origami”. It is one of their
Japanese cultures in terms of Arts and for them to enjoy it. And for this experiment this will show the
relationship between the S.A (surface area) and the weight. The length of the gliders surface area should be
greater so that the paper airplane would cover more distance cause it will lift better.

Introduction: airplane to land. Weight is related to the force

Paper airplanes are so fun watch while it’s
flying and it’s so easy to make. All you have to do
is to have a paper and fold it into a simple paper
airplane and then watch it floats with a flick of your
wrist. Seeing it floats and glide in the air are so
satisfying to watch and it makes our feeling happier.
There are four major about flying of an aircraft that
affects its flight. The lift, weight, thrust and drag
plays the important role to an aircraft. In this
experiment, force and the surface area of the paper
airplane wings will be the one that depends on how
the object covers more distance.
Force is a push and pull that changes or
tends to change the state of rest or uniform motion
of an object or changes the direction or shape of an
object. It causes objects to accelerate. When you
throw the paper airplane in the air you’re making or
giving the paper airplane a force or a push to move
it forward in order for it to fly. That push is what we
call force and the type of that force is Thrust. While
the paper airplane floats forward, air is moving
around it, under and over of its wings and provides
a force called lift to the paper airplane. As the paper
airplane moves forward through the air, the air
pushes against the paper airplane causes it to
slowing it down. This force called drag. The force
of the air pushing your hand back as you move
forward is the drag. The mass of the paper airplane
affects its flight through the air and brings the paper
acting on the object, either due to gravity or to a
reaction force that holds it in place. Some standard
textbooks define weight as a vector quantity, the
gravitational force acting on the object or the
Earth’s gravity that acts to the paper airplane.
Methodology
In order to make paper airplanes all you
need is 6 sheets of bond paper into different sizes.
Fold the 6 piece of papers into airplane. Make sure
that the paper airplanes are the same type of paper
and folding but different sizes. Folding your Glider
1 using long or short bond paper the other 5 gliders
must be folded into short or long bond paper also.
For the different sizes of gliders the dimension of
the paper should cut to the desired measurements.
And estimate the length and width using a
measuring tool.
And for making the launches you’ll need a
piece of wood and cut it into length 12 inches long
and the width is 9 inches. And also you will need
another piece of wood that is 2.5 inches in order to
elevate the launcher. Also you need a rubber band
and 2 pieces of nail and the hammer. Estimate the
distance of the 2 nails between 6 inches long or
width.
Results & Discussions:
Determine whether the distance a paper plane flies Paper Lengt Width Weig Distan Lengt
affected by increasing how much drag it Airplan h ht ce h in
experiences. es
Air
Glider #1 flew and its averaged is 11.1m (Glider
s) (secon
Glider #2 averaged 6.10m d)
Glider #3 averaged 5.58m
1 0.3302 0.2159 5.7N 11.1m 2.57
Glider #4 averaged 6.2m m m secs

Glider #5 averaged 5.12m 2 0.2794 0.1905 4.3N 6.10m 3.15

m m secs
Glider #6 averaged 5.9m
3 0.2286 0.1651 3.0N 5.58m 2.49
m m secs
Hypothesis:
4 0.1778 0.1397 2N 6.2m 3.10
The greater length of the gliders surface area the
m m secs
greater it covers distance. The choice of which
design of group’s paper airplane would fly farther
5 0.127 0.1143 1.2N 5.12m 2.33
that can covers more distance and time.
m m secs
Conclusion:
6 0.0762 0.0889 0.5N 5.9m 2.20
The result of this experiment is that the Glider #1 is m m secs
the most that covers longest distance than the other
glider. And the glider #6 is the shortest distance that
covered because its wings are much shorter than the
other paper airplanes.

Appendix:
We as a college student of Sapphire International
Aviation academy we conduct an experiment about
the scale and paper airplanes. In this experiment we
did it as a group and we observed that the paper
airplanes would be much greater to float if it has a
greater length of its wings or its surface area. We
observed even if it’s same design but different
measurement of length and width it will affect the
float of the glider but it depends on the way you
flick your wrist or the wind around.