Preston+G13

Preston G 2012-2013
 * THE STUDY OF THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF PAPER AIRPLANES AND HOW FAR IT FLIES **

**ABSTRACT** The purpose of this study was to determine how far different types of airplanes flew under certain conditions. The process of flight is controlled by such natural forces as gravity, lift, drag and thrust. In this experiment, three different types of paper airplanes were made with regular rule paper and with construction paper in the control experiment. Then the paper airplanes were thrown in the air to see how far each paper airplane design flew. It was discovered that the dart design airplane flew farther than the other designs. The likely reason for this result is the longer wingspan and the stream line body, that meant less drag and more thrust which helped the dart paper airplane fly farther than the other designs.

An improvement to this experiment would be to use different types of paper airplanes so I could compare the different types of paper airplanes. A future experiment that would be interesting to propose would be measuring the distance paper airplanes with different size wings but made out of a different type of paper or a different type of paper airplane.
 * EXPERIMENTAL IMPROVEMENTS AND FUTURE EXPERIMENTS **

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