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Best
Paper Airplane in the World
Information
about how to build an effective paper plane, by Michael
O'Reilly. Includes plans for folding it.
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Sabertooth
Paper Airplane
How to construct
a paper airplane that flies particularly well. Plans for
folding the paper included.
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Joseph
Palmer's Paper Airplanes
Joseph Palmer
has designed a range of paper airplanes, and this site gives
instructions on how to construct four of them.
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Throwing
Paper Planes
This site gives
you advice on how to find the centre of gravity and the
centre of lift for your paper plane, and shows photos of
launching.
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Activities
for the Classroom - Air and Flight
Unit plans,
resources, photos and activities to do with studying air and
flight.
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How to
make things that fly
Instructions and
plans (that can be printed out) for making a variety of
flying objects, and also carrying out experiments to do with
flight.
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Why do
planes stay up in the air?
This site
explains the four forces that operate on planes - lift,
weight, thrust and drag, and how they work together to make
planes fly.
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Flight
Rules
This site gives
you advice on how to tweak your paper plane until it flies
perfectly, and how to launch it effectively.
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Jean
Batten
The story of
this pioneer aviator, and her record breaking flight from
England to New Zealand.
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Richard
Pearse
The story of a
New Zealand designer and engineer, who dreamed of building a
powered plane and flying it.
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The
Wright Brothers
The Wright
Brothers are usually acknowledged as the first men to
successfully carry out powered flight in the
world.
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