AERODYNAMICS UNIT Assignment #1
Use the following website to answer these questions on a separate sheet of paper:
http://teacher.scholastic.com/paperairplane/airplane.htm
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What makes an airplane fly?
What is aerodynamics?
What is another word for drag?
How can you make a plane fly as far as possible?
What is the best way to overcome the pull of gravity on your plane?
What are thrust and lift?
Explain how the four forces – drag, gravity, thrust and lift – come into play for a plane to have
the longest flight possible.
8. Sketch a paper airplane with the four forces acting on it.
AERODYNAMICS UNIT Assignment #1
Use the following website to answer these questions on a separate sheet of paper:
http://teacher.scholastic.com/paperairplane/airplane.htm
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
What makes an airplane fly?
What is aerodynamics?
What is another word for drag?
How can you make a plane fly as far as possible?
What is the best way to overcome the pull of gravity on your plane?
What are thrust and lift?
Explain how the four forces – drag, gravity, thrust and lift – come into play for a plane to have
the longest flight possible.
8. Sketch a paper airplane with the four forces acting on it.