Glider Challenge

OUR FINAL DESIGN

1. DESIGN PHASE

-The challenge was to build a glider out of balsa wood and tissue paper that could either fly the farthest distance or be airborne the longest amount of time.

-BRAINSTORMING SOLUTIONS:

~There are NO rules to brainstorming!!

~Ideas: double wings, spikes to attack other gliders, slanted wings to push air up therefore be airborne longer, tail

-SPECIFY:

~Criteria: needs to fly (either far or long time)

~Contraints: amount of material, size of glider, time to build

-DEVELOPE SOLUTIONS:

We choose the slanted upward design because we thought that with the limited supplies we could most successfully complete the task with this model.

-PROTOTYPE: Our paper prototype stayed in the air for a significant amount of time so we decided to build.

2. TEST PHASE

-DESIRABLE OUTCOMES: flew, stayed in air decent length of time

-OUTCOMES TO CHANGE: went backwards, crashed into wall

-QUESTIONS RAISED: how do we make it go forward?

-IDEAS GENERATED: we should add a weight to the front

(Sorry my camera only took mirror shots)