1) For a couple of weeks in Engineering, we worked on a project where we built Balsa wood airplanes. Chase and I succsesfully completed our planes in two weeks. The plane ended up being relatively succesful when plying except for a tendancy to fly to the left.
4) The first time we tested our plane it flew straight down and the wings broke off. After that we had to reglue them and did not have a chance to retest until the competition.
5) Describe how well your aircraft flew in our competition. Did you win any events (furthest distance, longest time aloft)? Were you competative in our best decorated flier competition?
Our plane did not win but it waws very close in longest time aloft behind Sammy.
6) Pick three steps from the PLTW 12 step design process and describe how your team worked through these during the course of this experience.
Create and make- We made the plane based on the plan given to us. We created it second in the class.
Refine-When our wings broke off we rebuilt them with the wood glue as opposed to elmers. We also made sure they were glued evenly so they didnt tilt to one side more than another.
Reflect- Chase and I decided that to more effectively build our plane we have to glue the parts to go together balanced. Hopefully this will cause the plane to fly straight as opossed to turn sideways.
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