Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Planes !

1) Provide a breif description of the activity. Who did you work with? What did you build? What challenges did you overcome to succesfully craft your aircraft?
I worked with Jade and Michaela we did good time wise with making our aircraft. We thought we wouldnt be able to put it together, but we did.

2) Post a photo of your glider under construction.
We did not take one. Sorry.
3) Post a photo of your finished design.

4) Describe how you tested your aircraft and tuned its flight characteristics.
Testing our aircraft didnt go very well because we didnt fly it properly which led it to breaking, but we fixed it.
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?
We didnt win any events but our plane did pretty well for having to be refixed.

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.
Step 1: our problem was that we broke our plane in a test flight
Step 10: we fixed our design
Step 12: we got our results in the final test.

1 comment:

  1. You and your team did do a nice job testing (and then repairing!) your plane. Thanks for sharing your experience.

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