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 * The Study Of How Far Different Paper Airplanes Can Fly**
 * Thuc D**
 * 2011-2012**

The purpose of this experiment was to determine how far different types of paper airplanes flew. When a plane is in flight, there are 4 forces acting on a plane; gravity, lift, thrust, and friction. In this experiment, 3 types of paper airplanes were thrown to see how far each paper airplane went. It was hypothesized that the normal paper airplane would fly the farthest. It was determined that the normal paper airplane flew the farthest while the bulldog dart paper airplane flew the shortest distance. The results were not surprising because of the paper airplane was designed. Since the normal paper airplane’s design is very narrow and straight, it doesn’t have a lot of air resistance which doesn’t stop its momentum from going forward. While the bulldog dart airplane’s front was designed like a wall which makes air pushes against the plane and stops the plane from going forward without anything pushing it back.
 * ABSTRACT**

Different types of plane and the different type of wing design affected how the plane flew and how far the plane flew. The above information could be important to people who are planning to make a real airplane and would like to learn the basics off a basic model. The results were suspected based on previous experiments done by Sam Stanforth. In the future, it would be interesting to study how long the bulldog dart stayed in the air when the whole right wing, left wing, bottom of the paper airplane, and front of the paper airplane is dipped into water and then let to dry.
 * CONCLUSION **